Rupert Brooke By Siegfried Sassoon

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World War I also know as the Great War was a vicious and drastic time for everybody around the world. It killed many lives, destructed numerous countries and took away peoples beliefs, hopes and desires. It was a time of severe depression and worries that dampened every day living and life as a whole. World War I wiped out a whole generation of young men. Thousands and thousands young men experienced tragedy, death, extreme struggle and haunting images one could not bare to think of. If we did not have war poets such as Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Edward Thomas to express what they had seen, felt and experienced we wouldn’t know the extent of how crucial the war was and how badly it effected the well being for the men …show more content…
He thinks so highly about his country that he is willing to risk his life to protect it with everything in his power. He feels so passionate about his country that if and when he dies in war he wants to be put in England’s rich earth where he can rest his dead body in the soil he decided to fight for. The patriotic pride Brooke has for his country is one of the reasons why young men decided to enlist and volunteer because they had that same pride and that same desire of wanting to protect their home. The way the war was advertised helped plant that patriotism in the minds of young men. Posters that were advertised during the start of World War 1 were portrayed as the right thing to do. The posters not only came across as getting men to think joining was the right thing to but it was also looked at as real mans work, which is extremely prideful. Society saw joining the war as masculine and the right thing to do and since society was excepting to the idea it persuaded men to join even more. An article “Scarred Narratives and Speaking Wounds: War Poetry and the Body” written by Jeffrey Sychterz mentions that men going off and becoming a solider gives them the idea that it will give them masculine authority and wisdom (Sychterz 141). The article suggests that a scarred soldier can gain a higher understanding through the ordeals he survived. “The scar serves not just as a sigil of knowledge but a sign that the man deserves to speak and be heard, also as the very site of wisdom” (Sychterz 142). I think this goes along the lines of wanting to gain respect as

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