Comparing The Soldier 'And Dulce Et Decorum Est'

The overall message in this poem is a drill sergeant educating young soldiers and preparing them for the harsh reality of war. He is not playing ‘Mr. nice guy’, he is being tough and strict to give the soldiers no easy way out.

The poems “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Dulce ET Decorum EST” are war poems. They reflect on two different but equally harrowing events, however the poets portray these events using their own style and the and result is two entirely different views of war.

Wilfred Owens poem “Dulce et Decorum est” and Bruce Dawe’s poem “Homecoming” are poems from different wars, however both highlight the indignity of war. Owen’s poem is broken up into three sections, where he expresses the torture soldiers suffer

War is a scandalous topic where peoples’ views differ as to what war is. Some people see it as pure evil and wicked while others think that it is brave and noble of what soldiers do. Looking at poems which had been written by people affected by war help show the messages which are portrayed. The two sets of poems which show different views of war as well as some similarities are “the Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “The Song of the Mud” by Mary Borden. Both these poets use linguistic devices to convince the reader of their view of what the war is. Tennyson and Lovelace show how war is worthy

The poem was written to show that war is a waste of human life as the soldier knows he will die one day as well as the men around him, just some quicker than others. This can be evident in stanza four of the poem: “I know I’ll join them somewhere, one day.” The language used is more casual than formative, this is effective as it shows the personal feelings and thoughts of the soldier during the time

One is to think of war as one of the most honorable and noble services that a man can attend to for his country, it is seen as one of the most heroic ways to die for the best cause. The idea of this is stripped down and made a complete mockery of throughout both of Wilfred Owen’s poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. Through his use of quickly shifting tones, horrific descriptive and emotive language and paradoxical metaphors, Owen contradicts the use of war and amount of glamour given towards the idea of it.

The poem starts with similar word choices as ‘The Soldier’ but written in the perspective of the mother. The mother tells his son that when he dies he will be in a place of ‘quietness’ and free from the ‘loss and bloodshed’. This reinforces the fact that the battlefield was full of horrors and death. The poem then moves onto how ‘men may rest themselves and dream of nought’ explaining that the soldiers do not have to fear for their lives after their death. This illustrates how they feared for their lives and had negative connotations.

A. Austria-Hungary created World War I in the year of 1914 when they announced war on Serbia. This seemingly small conflict between the two countries soon spread immediately. Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and France all participated in the war, mostly since they were obligated to defend their treaties. B. How have the two authors, Wilfred Owen and Edgar Guest treated the subject of World War I differently throughout their poems?C. The Things That Make A Soldier Great by Guest and Dulce et Decorum Est by Owen differ from the perspectives of the authors. Guest encourages the soldiers to go sacrifice their lives and go to war, unlike Owen, where he explains how war is not necessary and horrifying. However, they both target points of comparison

The Portrayal of War in Charge of the Light Brigade and Dulce et Decorum Est

people at home that the war is good and that if people die there for

The poem “Soldier” is Brooke’s views on the possible occurrence of his own death in the field and what he feels that foreign country would gain from his death. When viewing his own death Brooke only looks at the thoughts and ways England has provided him with in the course of his life. Towards the end of the poem as if looking at the end of his life he mentions that he feels no anger or feelings of evil or hate toward the enemy or anything else but instead recollects all the wonderful things about his country.

Two passages that symbolize and mean two different things can contradict each other such as the two passages “Charge of the Light Brigade”, which is about glorifying and noble deaths in a war, and also “Dulce Et Decorum Est", one that is not so noble and proud of deaths in a war. The two passages symbolize and mean two different things. Let’s take, for instance, “Charge of the Light Brigade”, the author uses words in the passage that conveys meaning to being ready. In stanza one he says, “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns! He said: Into the valley of Death”. This signifies that they were marching into the valley of death which was the battle field and they were ready because Lord Cardigan gave them the order to charge their guns.

“Compare and contrast “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke with “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen with regard to theme, tone, imagery, diction, metre, etc”

Brooke’s sonnet shows the positive sides of the war but in “The Dead” he shows how the lives of the soldiers were drastically changed once in the war. This poem typifies Brooke’s response to the war by showing how he

In majority of Owen’s poem, he demonstrates the true image of war and the impact it has on the soldiers rather than masking it with the lies of pride