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ENGLISH COURSEWORK - POETRY In this essay I will be discussing two different war poems, all set and written during the Boer War. I will write about how they portray to us the pity of war and the messages that are within the poems and the way the poets have used their language whilst writing the poems. The two poems that I will be discussing are A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy and War by Edgar Wallace. However, we have also studied Dirge of the Dead Sisters by Rudyard Kipling and The Hyaenas by Rudyard Kipling. Each poem is unique within its own context. A Wife in London describes the life of women in England during the Boer War in an implicit way. It shows the nervousness that was felt by the women who were eagerly waiting to hear news of their husbands. In this poem Thomas Hardy shows an ironic and...

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