Using two poems compare the writers' attitudes to war, commenting on the method used to present these attitudes.
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War Poetry Assignment Using two poems compare the writers' attitudes to war, commenting on the method used to present these attitudes. The Soldier 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 of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. Rupert Brooke Anthem for Doomed Youth What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? -Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the...


