ESSAY ON 3 WAR POEMS -- English Literature

ESSAY ON 3 WAR POEMSNo man wants to go to state of struggle and no government wants war and there bemany different circumstances that lead to the carry through of war. Thoseinvolved in war entrust have political and individual(prenominal) views towards it. TheFirst World War was greeted with great enthusiasm and patriotism thus far it was the war in which millions died comp ard to the warsafter. In the past 200 years war has changed and with this changethe ideas on war have changed too.Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling and David Roberts are well know warpoets. Using a selection of their poems we hope to analyze the cardinalconflicting views on war.To understand what influenced the poets we need to get an idea oftheir well-disposed and historical background.The poet Rudyard Kipling was an ex army official so his poems on warcan be trusted. However during Kiplings war days war was not fullymechanized so Kipling cannot really describe the inconsistency of WW1.In his poem For All We Have and Are Rudyard Kipling uses words andphrases care For all our childrens fate to show the need forwar, Saying if you are not going to fight for yourself than fight foryour children.He than justifies going to war by saying a crazed and driven foe. I forecast by this he means that our foe is mentally disturb we have tostop him for his own and others benefit. He than says The Hun is atthe gate marrow that the Germans are coming. If we dont go out andmeet them they will attack us. He also curses the Germans by callingthem Huns.The Huns were originally an antediluvian patriarch 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 foolery of the war and uses sarcasticphrases such as It must take gut 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 ki ll or break thehearts of other mothers by this statement I think he means that Iknow your depressed about the sacking 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 death it has alreadycaused.If you look at the differences between the 3 poems described you will project that as time want on and war got uglier you started hearing moreof the truth about war.