War has lost all romance

Guns have taken away all the honor and nobility of war. Where once it was heroic knights valiantly engaged in hand-to-hand fighting for their King or Queen, now it's just illiterate peasantry shooting each other from hundreds of metres away. No more strong castles and legendary sieges. No more Lords of the Realm on great horses charging headlong into the enemy. No more legendary swords made by master craftsmen. Sigh.

War has lost all its Romance.

WW1 was still fairly romantic. Just look at all the war poetry it has produced!

And in a way, the war was somewhat similar to love for the soldiers. They enter the battlefield with a sense of glory, honor and duty. They leave with broken bodies and minds if they survived at all, cursing it for what it has done to them.