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War Poetry Essay Back in the First World War, the reason you chose to fight was through the false hope of "the old lie". Fed to youngsters by most citizens of Britain, the Old Lie suggested there was nothing more patriotic than fighting for one's country, dying for a just cause. The glory that it would bring to the family to have their men go off to fight in the Great War was an ideal that patriots believed was worth striving for. This lie was believed, because no one knew the harsh, tough conditions that they would endure on the battlefields or really understood what they were fighting for. But these attitudes to war changed during the First World War because this was "the war to end all wars" and it led soldiers to write poems about the horrific conditions at that time. The soldiers therefore formed the opinion that war was...

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