Compare the poems "Into Battle" and "Spring off"

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Comparing “Into Battle” with “Spring Off”, I find their poets’ attitudes are quite different. Grenfell who is poet of “Into Battle” thinks war is a glorious and noble thing, but Owen’s attitude is very clear and totally different from Grenfell’s which is that war is evil and brutal. In order to convey their own attitudes and purposes, these two poets all use different language styles and imagery. In the poem “Into Battle”, Grenfell uses lots of vocabulary of nature and
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spring as a background, these all help to show a harmony and sense which crease a peaceful tone to describe war, it is good for the reader to agree poet’s attitude. However, “spring” also is used in “Spring Off”, Owen makes a stark contraction between surviving in the war and new life in the spring landscape which surrounds troops. For “Into battle”, it uses pathetic fallacy positively to show its purpose. The “sun” gives him “warmth”, the “Glowing earth” gives him “life”, the “light foot winds” lend him “speed” etc. these descriptions all let soldiers or even readers to feel ...

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