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    English war poets emerged during World War I to document their experiences through poetry. Many young men were initially enthusiastic to fight but became disillusioned after facing the brutal conditions in the trenches. These war poets broke from 19th century conventions and wrote more personal, realistic reflections of the horrors of war. Rupert Brooke maintained a patriotic, romantic view and saw war as cleansing, while Wilfred Owen directly depicted the gruesome physical effects to convey the true gravity and denounce propaganda. Both poets sought to share their starkly different perspectives on the realities of combat.

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    English war poets emerged during World War I to document their experiences through poetry. Many young men were initially enthusiastic to fight but became disillusioned after facing the brutal conditions in the trenches. These war poets broke from 19th century conventions and wrote more personal, realistic reflections of the horrors of war. Rupert Brooke maintained a patriotic, romantic view and saw war as cleansing, while Wilfred Owen directly depicted the gruesome physical effects to convey the true gravity and denounce propaganda. Both poets sought to share their starkly different perspectives on the realities of combat.

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    ENGLISH WAR POETS

    A month after the bloody attack in Sarajevo that saw the death of the Austrian Prince Franz Ferdinand killed by
    Serbian student Gavrilo Princip, England, France and Russia go to war against Prussia and 'Empire Austria-
    Hungary. The conflict also took part in many personalities of the intellectual world of the time, which are also
    affected by the massive patriotic campaign that had a significant impact in particular in France and England,
    countries that gave a great contribution to human lives predominantly young. Young people were the so-called
    war poets (poets of war), started with the enthusiasm typical of their age and then shocked by the inhumane
    conditions of the trench, to die in acts of war or remain forever marked.

    They treated a “modern poetry” because their way of writing did not follow the 19th century poetic conventions.
    In particular they deal with their personal feelings, state of minds, experience of the First World War. We can
    distinguish two different reactions to the war: One is presented by Rupert Brooke. Rupert Brooke was born to
    a wealthy family in 1887 . He was an excellent student and attended King's College in Cambridge. He joined
    the army in September 1914. Regarded by friends as a "warrior of gold" and cited by Prime Minister Churchill
    in numerous speeches, He died because of an attack of septicemia in 1915. He composed several poems like
    "The Dead", "Safety" and "Peace" .He describes his experience in a lyric way, using a softly and romantic
    language. He is animated by a patriotic enthusiasm and see the war as a good instrument for cleaning the
    world by evil and to resolve problems. Besides he believes that the real suffering could hit only the body
    because his love for his country was stronger than any other pain.

    Another national Hero is Wilfred Owen. In 1915 he worked as a teacher and was a visit to a hospital of the war
    wounded who shook him so much as to make him make the decision to enlist as an officer. Just a week before
    the armistice was mortally wounded in the attack on a German machine gun at the age of twenty-five. Owen
    instead describes his experience in the trenches in a very realistic way, using a crude and a specific language,
    showing all the horrors and the physical effects of the war on the men. In particular he wants to give a sense of
    gravity to the whole situation and denounce the false good appearance that the war could transmit.

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