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How have poets’ attitudes to war changes from Tennyson to Owen? The opinion of war has changed greatly since World War one, poets like Tennyson wrote about how heroic
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How have poets' attitudes to war changes from Tennyson to Owen? The opinion of war has changed greatly since World War one, poets like Tennyson wrote about how heroic soldiers were to go to war while recent war poets like Roger McGrough are against war. The reasons for this change in opinions since Tennyson is that modern day warfare is more dangerous killing more innocent people. Now day's people are also less patriotic and people are more informed about past war horrors from poets who went to war and returned with bloody stories like Sassson and Owen. Mc Gough shows the seriousness of modern day war with his poem Icarus Allsorts, he writes "from every corner of the earth bombs began to fly". This underlines how advanced and dangerous modern day technology is. War poetry has changed dramatically since Alfred Tennyson in 1854. When Tennyson wrote 'charge of the light Brigade' most...
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