War Poems - Brooke vs Sassoon

War is a topic that brings forth many emotions and has thus been the focus of many poets' works. You would think that war and its devastating effects would invoke very similar responses and portrayals, but this is evidently not the case when looking at poetry by Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke side by side. Once you begin to explore their war poetry, you find that it varies considerably, both in the way it is written and the attitudes that it brings forward. Much of this variation becomes clearer and more understandable when you delve into the different experiences of the poets.
…