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War has occurred in several occasions throughout history. We’ve had several important wars in the twentieth century, World War I and World War II, and Vietnam. Each and every war has had an effect on those who lived through it, and those who fought in it. Poets write about what effects, and inspires them. If they were soldiers in war they often times have a strong opinion of war. This comes out in their poetry. Seigfried Sassoon, and Rupert Brooke were English poets who both served in World War I. Sassoon, a true survivor of trench warfare, wrote, “Everyone Sang” protecting war. While Brooke, who did not see the trenches, wrote, “The Soldier”, and a patriotic war-supporting poem. Each man wrote a splendid war poem, but each from different spectrums of war.
“Everyone Sang” is a two stanza, five-line poem that says so much about the imprisonment of war. The poem was written right after Sassoon’s release from the British......

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