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Rosenberg had passivist values was opposed to nationalism of war but signed up because needed money. Word cosmopolitan was couched with suspicion and applied to international intellectuals + sometimes jews in an anti-semitic way. White sometimes associated at this time with cowardice. Poppies associated with death of soldiers because they grow where soldiers have died (because they grow where land has been over turned and ripped up) Nostalgia (popular theme popular to turn away from horror of war to an unchanging war, a pastoral world) f. Houseman wrote a lot of these poems before he even visited shropsire. Movement away from poetic diction, a mix of languages. Mix of spoken english (sometimes exactly what people say) Not a perfect world, world of conflict and war. Varity of registers reflect the chaos and turbulence. Owen switches between specifics of battle to talking of rage and despair. Auditory mimicry of the concepts in the line.
