Inhis poem ‘For All We Have and Are’ Rudyard Kipling uses words and phrases like“For all our children’s fate” to emphasize the need for war, Saying if you arenot going to fight for yourself than fight for your children.
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ESSAY ON 3 WAR POEMS No man wants to go to war and no government wants war but there are many different circumstances that lead to the action of war. Those involved in war will have political and personal views towards it. The First World War was greeted with great enthusiasm and patriotism; however it was the war in which millions died compared to the wars after. In the past 200 years warfare has changed and with this change the ideas on war have changed too. Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and David Roberts are well known war poets. Using a selection of their poems we hope to analyze the two conflicting views on war. To understand what influenced the poets we need to get an idea of their social and historical background. The poet Rudyard Kipling was an ex army official so his poems on war can be trusted. However during Kipling's war...


