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Similarities
- Theme of war and death
- First hand accounts of their experiences
- About the First World War
- Use of repetition 'England', 'English and 'all went lame all blind'
- Use of alliteration 'foreign field', 'knock kneed'
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Differences
- S - patriotic poem
- D - anti war poem
- D - addresses propagandists
- S - written at the beginning of the war
- D - written near the end of the war
- D - it is not sweet and right to die for your country 'bent double like old beggars under sacks', 'white eyes writhing in his face', 'you would not tell with such high zest'
- S - it is sweet and right to die for your country 'a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware'
- S - Brooke didn't see the real effects of war
- D - Owen saw what war was really like 'he plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning', 'come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs'
- D - use of onomatopoeia 'guttering, choking'
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