Comparing WW I And World War II Poems

Although WW I and WW II poems have the same theme, which is war, we can see how they have many differences. To begin with, all WWI poems seem to focus on the battles of the war itself and the horrifying experiences the soldiers have to cope with. WWII poems have a more deep approach, they have a more psychological point of view and usually the poems are set before or after a battle. In these poems the battlefield is not the main focus of the poem, but the feeling or ideas of the speaker itself. Another great difference between these two group of poems is that WWI poems speak solely about the speaker and the army he's a part of, in the contrary in WWII poems like "Vergissmeinnicht” we can see the psychological factor of the poem, when the speaker