The Great War Told through Poetry

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In this essay the following poems are analyzed and compared: Brooke, R. - The Soldier Owen, W. - Dulce et Decorum Est. Sorley, C. - In Memoriam S.C.W., v.c. Sassoon, S. - Glory of Women The comparison of these poems shows the change in mentality of the soldiers and the public in Britain during WWI. The change of seeing war as fighting for an ideal cause to seeing war as a dark thing in which a lot of suffering takes place.

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"Ideas and feelings through history are often conserved through art. There are of course many forms of art, for example: paintings, sculptures, music, film, photos, prose and poetry. It is very interesting to see how the expressions in art change as the time period, and thus ideas, change. The art of a certain period can tell us much about that period. In this essay there will be a comparison of the pro-war poetry and the anti-war poetry made in times of the first World War. By comparing these two different types of poetry we will see the changing ideas about war during the period of 1914-1918, the times of the first World War."

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