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How far is the title 'Death's Kingdom' appropriate for this section?

Throughout the Great War, the attitudes and opinions of not only the public, but also the soldiers of England varied throughout its course. As the war started out, there were high hopes and patriotic idealism which ruled the opinions of the home front and the fighting men. These ideal images of 'valiant and brave soldiers' fighting the 'Boche' slowly deteriorated as the mass losses of men became everyday occurrences. The attitudes of many, including the poets in the anthology, changed. Many started to resent what the war stood for, and the 'brave and noble' sacrifices the men had to make for some general sat safely in an office. Death's Kingdom shows this realisation of the horrors of war and also captures the emotions and attitudes in the poems within this section.

'To my daughter Betty' by T. M. Kettle, shows the attitude of a father who has experienced the horrors of the war and realises that the soldiers he fought with "Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor" like they were told but for the Country's belief of "a dream born in a herdsman's shed". Moreover,