1. The French Revolution
... line, both letter writing, and poetry helping to pass the time, while helping their families to feel more secure in the knowledge that they were OK and in good spirits. Poems written like Rupert Brookes" The Soldier and the one in source F also helped to maintain morale, civilians imagining their kin as "gallant soldiers (who) drive (through) the fear of death ... right to fight" unlike Jesse Pope's The Game which suggested that war was merely like a slightly more vicious game of rugby, in which a soldier would return victorious with at worst a broken arm. The two pieces are obviously t...
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