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"Discuss how two or three writers treat the subject of war."
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"Discuss how two or three writers treat the subject of war." I am going to discuss how Wilfred Owen, Siegfred Sassoon and Isaac Rosenberg treat the subject of war. I have studied Rosenberg's 'Break of Day in the Trenches.' This title suggests a calm atmosphere as the break of day is very relaxing and peaceful the beginning of a new day. The whole poem has a calm and peaceful feel to it and the poet achieves this by using assonance e.g. "sleeping green" and soft consonants such as "sympathies." Even though the poem has a calm atmosphere, the message that the poet wants to say in the poem is about anger and object to war. The poet comments on the devastating effects war has on the earth and the freedom that it takes away form men. The poem opens describing the "darkness" crumbling "away" gives the effect of a bleak atmosphere as the darkness...
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