Poetry written about war has the ability to capture something of its horror and waste. Do you find this to be true from the reading of the poems you have studied?

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Poetry written about war has the ability to capture something of its horror and waste.  Do you find this to be true from the reading of the poems you have studied? For my coursework I was asked to study three poems and anaylise them on how they bring out the horror and waste of war.  I have chose "Dulce Et Decorum Est" By Wilfred Owen, "The Drum" by John scott and "The charge of the light brigade" by Lord Tennvson.  Alll three poems I throughly enjoyed anaylising and reading.  All the poems were anti-war and clearly showed the devasting effects of war on the soliders.  It made me feel sorry for what the soliders had to go through and how much they suffered.  I thought "Dulce Et Decorum Est" By Wilfred Owen brought this out espically well.  All three poems painted psychological images that would disturb the mind and make the reader realise what the war was really like. Wilfred Owen died at the age of 25 and was killed seven days before the end of World War 1. He is regarded as one of the most well-known war poets of the 20th Century, having written an astonishing 110 poems. Under the influence of Romantic, early 19th Century poets such as Wordsworth, Keats and
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Shelley, Owen produced ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ which revealed the truth behind war, the grief and suffering caused. Wilfred Owen wanted to dismiss the idea of romance as a motivation to fight in the war; young men believed that fighting in the war would make them heroes and that girls would be passionate about them. Of course many men didn’t have an option in the matter: wives and girlfriends chose not to stay with their man if they didn’t fight in the war, so men were forced to join up. The fact that their partner wouldn’t stick by them was ...

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