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How are attitudes to war shaped by these poems - The fly.
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How are attitudes to war shaped by these poems I think that the attitude these poems are trying to make us share with them is how ugly and disgusting war really is. 'The Fly's' main focus is the fly doing all of its everyday activities in a after-battle background. In 'Vergissmeinnicht' also attempts to persuade us t see war as wrong by presenting it as an unnecessary loss of human life. 'The Fly' mainly focuses on a fly and it's activities, which she does on the battlefield after the battle has ended. I think that what struck me and my attitudes the most, is the disgusting things the poet describes. Apparently, the poet is attempting, quite successively, to make us feel negatively towards war. By showing what revolting scenery is left behind on the battleground, we receive a shocking and brutal image before our eyes. "A disemboweled horse", or "blue...
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