ESSAY ON 3 WAR POEMS -- English Literature

ESSAY ON 3 fight POEMSNo man wants to go to warfare and no government wants war but there aremany different circumstances that flow to the action of war. Thoseinvolved in war give have political and personal views towards it. TheFirst World War was greeted with great enthusiasm and nationalismhowever it was the war in which millions died compared to the warsafter. In the past 200 long time warfare has changed and with this changethe vagarys on war have changed too.Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and David Roberts are thoroughly known warpoets. Using a selection of their rimes we hope to study the twoconflicting views on war.To understand what influenced the poets we need to get an idea oftheir social and historical background.The poet Rudyard Kipling was an ex army official so his poems on warcan be trusted. However during Kiplings war age war was not fullymechanized so Kipling cannot really risk upon the horror of WW1.In his poem For All We Have and Are Rudyard Kipling use s rowing andphrases like For all our childrens fate to emphasize the need forwar, state if you are not qualifying to fight for yourself than fight foryour children.He than justifies going to war by saying a crazed and driven resistance. Ithink by this he means that our foe is mentally disturbed we have tostop him for his own and others benefit. He than says The Hun is atthe render Meaning that the Germans are coming. If we dont go out and ache them they will attack us. He also curses the Germans by callingthem Huns.The Huns were in the beginning an ancient tribe who ravaged and plunderedevery where they went. By calling the Germans, Huns Rudyard Kiplingsuggests that they are the same and present a danger to all so we hav... ... the stupidity of the war and uses sarcasticphrases such as It must reward guts to drop those bombs on defencelesspeople who had no chance to emphasize the unfairness of the war.Roberts also says Your boys didnt have to maim and cleanup or break thehe arts of other mothers by this statement I think he means that Iknow your depressed about(predicate) the loss of your sons but think of the othermothers whose hearts your sons broke by killing people who like themwere just following orders.In this poem I feel David Roberts challenges the governments decisionto go to war against Iraq by calling this war the shamefullest ofwars and by highlighting the depression and termination it has alreadycaused.If you look at the differences between the 3 poems described you willfind that as time want on and war got uglier you started interview moreof the truth about war.