BLAST

The tone in the two magazines changes drastically from being militant to playing the role of the victim. This change was specifically due to Kaiser Wilhelm wanting "to space no Cubist prisoners, wounded or otherwise." Before the war the ''BLAST'' often used harsh language such as "Curse its (England) climate for sins and infections." This tone of cursing people and things left and right in the second issue. It contained language like "the English have their innocuous little sports." This change in vocabulary was exclusively due to the First World War. Many of the contributors of the magazine were involved in the war. This involvement in the war caused them to be scarred emotionally. Due to this scarring the language that the contributors used changed dramatically. This was how the tone of the contributors changed from the first to the second issues of ''BLAST''.