... 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 ... other. Wilfred Owen use of half rhymes in this poem gives us the feeling of senselessness. In...

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... believed under the impact of propaganda. like old beggars under sacks While the propaganda deceived the public by creating images of a soldier as heroic, masculine and noblemen, Owen instead described the soldiers in a crippling state, providing sympathetic image of physically and mentally tortured men. ... further reinforces the miserably looking reflection of the soldiers, who are in the battlefield out there. Owen continues to describe the soldiers and lay them in a stark contrast in the next lines. Knock-Kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Alliteration of the ... , ...

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