The War Poets

Hello everyone...this week my post is really late! It must be the effects of the last week of term. Anyway....
This week we read and compared two poems written during the First World War. Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" is a sonnet presenting an idealistic view of war, and he used a lot of words we would not usually correlate with the topic - flowers, rivers, the sun, friends, laughter. Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" captured the more realistic aspects of death in a war where new weapons were being tried out. Perhaps by modern standards it seems very naive, and perhaps not very shocking; but at the time it was written it caused quite an effect. Still, I think, it has a certain power.