In Rupert Brooke’s “The Solider” it's about a soldier who is dedicated to fighting for his country but if he dies he wants to be remembered well such as the girl he brought "flowers" to, he wants her to remember he loves her. He also says how he wants "all evil shed away", he is hoping that his willingness to die for his country will ultimately gain peace and evil will no longer remain. The poem closes with the idea that shall he die, he wants the one's he loved to remember him but continue to live their lives happy even if it's with out him.
In Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” they are both poems that portray war in a negative position. They each use strong emotional diction to display the negative realities of war. For example, the poems describe that being a soldier and fighting should not be viewed as heroic, and that the damaging effects war has on soldiers is in no way glorious. Having the word "doom" in the title of one of the poems automatically tells the reader that the poem is going to lead to something bad, and in this case war leads to death. The message of these poems is that all soldiers are "doomed" to death and that their is no chance of survival during war.
I really enjoyed Siegfried Sassoon’s “Glory of Women” because it was sort of a women's point of view and becoming fed up with having to deal with the man always being in control and his say over hers. This poem is about the man only wanting or loving the women when it's good for him or under his circumstances. I found this poem interesting because I can relate it to reality, where I and plenty of people have been in or been exposed to relationships like this which usually end slow and painfully.
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