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After reviewing the documents listed below, the characteristics of war experience between the three poets are similar. These “war poets” ‘ poetry shows a first-hand account of the cruelty and the havoc of war in a world that still assumed that war was heroic and honored. They conveyed the painful years of experience and wrote mostly in reaction to personal experiences. However, romantically, they participated on the front they may have felt about battle since they first joined up, quickly realized its full horror. This sudden realization impacted both their imaginations and their poetic techniques. They had to figure out how to express the awful truths they had learned, and the underlying insight influenced their way of writing even though they didn’t tell it directly.
The three poems demonstrate that France, Germany, and America’s soldiers were not ready to face the battlefield conditions. The region was muddy, damp, wet, rat-infested, sprawling across the hideous western frontier countryside. The relentless bombing and use of gas, filth, and scorn, men blown in half, they all met these horrible sights during the war’s worst winter. The poets wrote ironically and bitterly. They wrote in a lasting and meaningful manner that portrays the futility of the war, the terrible circumstances which the soldiers have been forced to contend with on the battlefield, in a powerful way, but at times understated and often upsetting, compassionate and upsetting.
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In the three documents, the experiences faced by the poets shaped their attitudes towards war. These three soldiers seem to think that wars are hopeless and absurd all the time. In battle, men will keep killing each other. They demonstrate the reality that people have to see past resentment and conflict. People must see the war for what it truly is, a sad thing. Instead of fighting hate wars, people need to be pitiful and want more love for one another.
The poems convey the terror and futility of a state’s demise. For example, to show the greatest irony, Owen juxtaposes the concept of war as destructive and war as heroic in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori.’ … The men who enlist are ‘innocent’ (line 24), they are ‘children’ (line 26) who have learned that war is full of ‘high zest’ (line 25) and this makes them “ardent for some desperate glory” (line 26). The innocent people are willing to believe Lie, but they will learn differently once the war is experienced. The experiences, therefore, made the men learn to despise the war.
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The response of the people at the home front would be more of a resistance. The letters recreate the terror and sorrow of the soldiers. They protest against the war and are focused mostly against it, and thus also against the civilian who seems to know nothing of the horrors of war. Therefore, if these letters would get to the people at the home front, they would most definitely stop people from going into battle and vouch for world peace.
For instance, the Indian’s letter did not pass the government censors comment because it was likely to harm India. This shows that the people would be against the war since they would know the exact truth of how their soldiers were getting killed. As they suffered and died, the soldiers wanted peace to return as soon as possible. People at the home front would probably want the war to stop or make the conflict worse since they would like to protect their soldiers.
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The reaction of national governments towards these writings would have been adverse. The authors’ Home countries would have probably started another war. Seeing that their soldiers were being mistreated and suffering, they would want to fight for their kin. The poets intended to write the truth and not make poetry romantic or dramatic, so they showed war’s reality. The poems showed forbearance, the helplessness, the terror, and inefficiency without losing its creative balance or allowing bitterness to infiltrate into the work.
The authors acquired an intensely personal experience as a soldier and wrote the physical, moral and psychological traumas of the First World War with unrivaled strength. They graphically describe soldiers’ pain and angst in combat, which gives the reader much more than a glimpse of war’s horrors by showing pity. This poetry is memorable for its passionate denunciation of war using powerful language. Therefore, the home country’s national governments would denounce the action and stop providing soldiers for war. That is why they did not let the letters get to their home countries