Wilfred Owen
World War 1 was originally a European war. It eventually escalated to a global conflict involving 32 nations. The enthusiasm with which the European people greeted the outbreak of hostilities during World War 1 quickly turned to horror as casualty lists lengthened and reality set in. What had been projected as a brief war became a four year struggle. When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead.At the beginning of the war, most poets wrote about how it was patriotic to fight or even die for your country, ‘The Soldier’ is one of these poems. Rupert Brooke wrote this poem very early in the war, this is known as a pro-war poem. In this poem he is saying if you die for your country you will be a true patriot. I think this poem is very patriotic and though many consider it too romantic compared to the gruesome works of some World War 1 poets such as Wilfred Owen, it gives a very good image of young men’s attitudes when entering the world before they had been hardened by the experience of war. The poem ‘Futility’, the heading says it all for Wilfred Owen, World War 1 was pointless, useless. The fir
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