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Trace the History of ‘The Old Lie’ from before and throughout the First World War, from enthusiastic patriotism to cynical disillusionment.
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Trace the History of 'The Old Lie' from before and throughout the First World War, from enthusiastic patriotism to cynical disillusionment. When the word war is mentioned, the first thing that comes to most people's heads are the horrific scenes of the First World War. However, some people still feel it is a great honour to fight and die for your country. Wilfred Owen, a war poet, described this view as 'The Old Lie'. Poetry has become more and more popular in the past couple of years, and it is possible that war poetry is often read as it deals with strong feelings and the difficulties of conflict that we still experience today. Poetry will make most people think of love and really boring stuff so where did war poetry suddenly come from? Well, poets found that in order to get the perfect 'Romantic Moment', you had to go to the...
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