They usually got their ideas of war from war poems, war poems like "Who's For The Game" written by Jessie Pope. ... " These soldiers are living with critical conditions while being forced to fight in a war. ... The purpose of the poem was also to aim the poem to Jessie Pope, telling her that war should not be treated positively. ... But what the soldiers did get in the end was a living nightmare and experiencing the horror of watching someone you know die. ... In the poem, he writes. ...

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Tennyson's 1856 poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" are salient examples of a text being a product of its time. These poems reflect the attitudes and values held in the society they were written. While Tennyson's poem focuses on a key battle of the 1850's Crimean War, Owen's poem presents a juxtaposing perspective on the reality of trench warfare during World War I (1914-1918). ... " Similarly, the alliteration in line 20 "devil's sick of sin" illuminates the sounds of a his...

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Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori The poem "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen gives us an inside view of what it was like for soldiers in the appalling conditions of trench warfare from 1914 until 1918. This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, mustard gas and even if you were very unfortunate, you could be lying in no-mans-land injured, screaming and shouting. ... "Like a deaths sick of sin-, here Owen tries to get us to imagine the devils face to be twisted, deluded and covered in gr...

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