A lie

When young soldiers decide to fight for their country they are made to believe that it is a sweet and nobel thing to do. They are not told of the brutalities of war. The poet Jessie Pope was a pro- war poet, and in her poems she made men who did not fight in the war seem as if they are weak and are afraid of the war, and that they will not be respected by the people in their country. She didn't mention the severity of actually fighting in a war as did Wilfred Owen did. He showed that fighting in a war was not fun, that the type of death they were to endure was not a easy one. He mention a solider who died from a gas attack. He says, "His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin," the solider who had passed away just went through possibly one of the worst ways to die. So I believe that yes it is a lie, war is not a beautiful and sweet thing , and soldiers should have been told what they were signing up for.