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Compare and contrast the portrayal of war within ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘The Soldier’
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Compare and contrast the portrayal of war within 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' and 'The Soldier' I'm writing to compare the two war poems 'Dulce et decorum est.' and 'The Soldier' written by poets considered the two most greatest war-poets of their times (before and during the first world war), Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke. Both these poems portray war in very different ways. The First World War began in 1914 and took place mainly in Luxembourg and Belgium which was invaded by the Germans and named the 'western front'. Both sides built trenches and fortifications running from the North Sea to the borders of Switzerland. Between this was 'no man's land' the reason this was, is in the name. No man who went there came back alive, they would have been killed. The main countries fighting were England and Germany. What made this war so different was the fact that...
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