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Propaganda during WW 1
Attitudes toward war as reflected in poetry
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The True Experience of War Revealed in Poetry of Scott and Owen What we have just witnessed, due war in Iraq, is that war is devastating, horrific and most of all timeless. The people involved and soldiers fighting at the battle scene can only ever witness the cruel reality of war, but they can tell you that it never changes. As we have gathered from recent documentaries exposing what really happened in Iraq, we can never truly trust everything the media tells us. It has always been this way. Media has for centuries and still clouds our judgment with propaganda and we can never really understand how horrific war is. The world will never know how many Iraqis died in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, in part because the United States adamantly refuses to estimate the number of people it kills in combat and because gathering accurate numbers is all but impossible after the Iraqi government's chaotic collapse. And in part because these murders were barely ever reported in the news, even though every American and English death was broadcasted and printed. This information is relevant even to over a hundred years ago, as the truth was not exposed then either. All we will ever see is the sugar coated glorious image of war, which has been created and moulded over hundreds of years by propaganda. In many wars This concealment of the truth began the writing of some of the most influential war poets. Soldiers who had once been proud and joyous in believing that they were dong a brave and honourable job now contained bitterness and anger. They wrote anti-war poems, which were not allowed to be published for years after they were written, ex... ... middle of paper ... ...fred Owen's account of portrayal of war in 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' is more effective in exposing the reality of war, as he himself played a role in it. He was able to tell us first hand about the death of one of his fellow soldiers. Although I do feel that Scott's poem was effective as it criticized the government's lies in propaganda. He also showed that war is not about 'charms','tawdry lace' and 'glittering arms', but more about suffering, pain and death. As we can see both these poems have a clear image of war, and the effects of war, even though they were writing over a hundred years apart. This is evidence that even today, especially in places like America and England, concerning the war on Iraq, we are manipulated by propaganda. And many people do still believe the old lie; Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.