Choose three contrasting poems that you feel show the difference in the attitudes and experiences of those people who were part of World War One.

Choose three contrasting poems that you feel show the difference in the attitudes and experiences of those people who were part of World War One. Analyse them in relation to how they demonstrate the experiences and feelings towards war at the time. The three poets that I am choosing to write about are, Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, and Rupert Brooke. The reason that the three poems contrast is the tone and content of the poem. …

…all times, helping them through. Thomas Hardy was a unique poet, he could never go to war, he was too old to enrol, this is the first difference in comparison to the other poets, Brooke and Sassoon. As he never went to war, we would expect a patriotic, idealistic view, but he did not. He wrote realistically about war, and was sympathetic in his writing. Hardy was known for being quite pessimistic about his poetry