How is the poetry of 1914 different from earlier war poetry.
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How is the poetry of 1914 different from earlier war poetry. The Traditional Poems written before the first world war in 1914 were about Heroism and the war being glorious,the men were persuaded to join the army and were told that it was good to fight for your country.The war was thought to be exciting glamorous and the soldiers were heroes,the war was thought to be romantic and the women loved men in uniforms. World war I Poety was different from earlier poetry as owen was telling his own experience that war isn't Heroic or glamourous.The Soldier Rupert Brooke 1887-1915,If I should die,think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign Field That is for ever England .There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;A dust whom England bore,Shaped,made aware,Gave,once,her flowers to love,her ways to roam,A body's of England's breathing English air,Washed by the rivers,blest by...


