War Essays

The two poems that I have chosen to compare and contrast are Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen and War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy. These two poems were written over fifty years apart and yet still manage to convey a similar message, the unnecessary suffering to those involved …

If Wilfred Owen’s war poetry had one main aim, it would be to expose “the old lie”: that war is always a good and justified thing and that it is a good thing to die for one’s country. Owen had experienced first hand the horrors and tragedies of the First …

Consider the ways in which ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’ not only teaches us about the history and conditions of World War One, but also makes us share the characters feelings, and so sympathise with the soldiers involved in that war ‘Blackadder Goes Forth’ is a highly entertaining and very popular comedy …

To show how attitudes to the war changed as the Great War progressed I have chosen four poems. “The soldier” by Rupert Brooke, “In Flanders Field” by John McCare and ” Disabled” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est.” both by Wilfred Owen. Both John McCare and Rupert Brookes poems were written …

What do you learn of the different attitudes of the poets and their societies and which poet do you find the most effective at expressing their attitude? What is war poetry? War poetry is, on a basic level just that… War-Poetry: poems about war and its effects on people. In …

Both Pope and Mackintosh have used wartime propaganda in their poems to get across civilian attitudes about the war. Pope uses phrases very similar to the catchy propaganda that encouraged people to participate in the war effort, for example ‘they’re going to keep their end up’. Lines like these are …

In this essay I am going compare the two films ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘The longest day’ and explain how the films represent war in the landing sequences. Both films are based on the US landings on Omaha, 6th June 1944 (D-day) ‘The longest day’ was made in 1962, produced …

“In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” How horrible is war? The two writers Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon have had enough of war, and so these two men want to show the rest of the Untied Kingdom, war is not as …

The British Army at the beginning of the war was small in comparison to other countries involved. In 1914, Britain had 975,000 soldiers including reservists. France had over four million and Germany four and a half. To solve this shortage in numbers, Lord Kitchener, the war minister, began a recruitment …

Before considering the meaning of a “just” war, we must first establish what war is. War is that state of armed conflict between different groups or cultures. War can often be started by one person, who could be a dictator, or someone important who is killed. In the result of …