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“The Dead” by Rupert Brooke
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The First World War effected people in many different ways. The war for some was horrific and terrible, soldiers saw their friends in pain and their friends die. For some the war was seen as a patriotic nationalist: young men fighting for their country, some may die but at least they died for their country. These two views of the war were very different and they depend on what you experienced during the war. By reading war poems we can see in to the heart of these soldiers and how they saw the war. The first sonnet is a Patriotic poem called "The Dead" it is written by Rupert Brooke in 1914. The first verse talks about life when you are alive and how you take it for granted. The first verse fools you into thinking that this is a peaceful sonnet "These hearts were woven of human joys and...
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