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How important is landscape in some of the literature you have studied of World War one.
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How important is landscape in some of the literature you have studied of World War one. Many of the poet's during World War one relied upon landscape to create the atmosphere needed to give some idea to the people at home what the surroundings of war and the repercussions of war really were like. The horrific nature of war could not be seen on television as it could be today, it could be reported in newspapers quite adequately, yet many found that the best way to really get a feel for war, was to hear from some that had experienced it first hand, as many poets of the day had done. Wilfred Owen was a leading poet during the Great War. Poems such as 'Exposure', 'Strange Meeting', and 'Mental Cases' contain copious amounts of vivid language all upon the torture of the men at war, and the pain and suffering that they...
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