Dulce Et Decorum Est And Charge Of The Light Brigade Comparison

            Although there are many similarities between the poems if you were to read them each shows an entirely different aspect of war. Tennyson glamorises the war. His views of the war are very positive and he sees it as an opportunity for a man to prove himself. He speaks of the qualities of these men, of their bravery. They are charging in to almost certain death but yet they still follow orders and fight on in the “valley of death”. He doesn’t speak of the fact that this was a huge mistake by the general to send his men into almost certain death. He reflects the popular and widespread opinion of the time, which was that war was a great thing and all young men looked forward to being able to serve and die for their country. The main reason for this belief was that there hadn’t been a major war fought in Britain for the past two hundred or so years and people didn’t realise the horrors that war brought. Tennyson’s poem has none of the gory details of "Dulce ET Decorum EST”. “Tennyson’s poem is removed from the sordid

Tennyson, not being present during the Crimean war is a very significant point as it changes the perspective of his poem and makes it seem as though Owen's poem is informing us with believable facts. Therefore, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ seems more powerful of the two because it appears more truthful to real life and what war is really like.

In Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” the speaker’s argument against whether there is true honor in dieing for ones country in World War I contradicts the old Latin saying, Dulce et Decorum Est, which translated means, “it is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland”; which is exemplified through Owen’s use of title, diction, metaphor and simile, imagery, and structure throughout the entirety of the poem.

The first poem we are going to look at is ‘The Charge of the Light

The first verse of Charge Of The Light Brigade portrays the soldiers as strong, willing, noble men; ready to ride into “the valley of Death” whereas Dulce Et Decorum Est portrays the soldiers as struggling, exhausted and fatigued. Alfred Lord Tennyson illustrates the same idea of honour and nobility throughout his poem in contrast to Wilfred Owen’s poem which discusses fear and sorrow amongst other emotions.

The first few stanzas of the poem relay the realities of what it was like to be on the battlefront, and to watch a friend suffer and die brutally, without being able to help. At the end of the last stanza, Owen explains how if those not serving knew the gruesome nature of war, they wouldn’t tell, “the old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” to their inferiors (Owen). Translated from Latin, this means, it is both sweet and honorable to die for one’s country. However, unbeknownst to the folks back home, it was the exact

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

Similar to Anthem for Doomed Youth, the idea of dehumanisation in 'Dulce ET Decorum EST Pro Patria Mori' is also introduced early in the poem. The first lines, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks", and "Knock-kneed, coughing like hags" both describe the condition in which young people of the war suffered through. The similes allow the audience to visualise the soldiers more accurately. They are portrayed somewhat so weak and devaluated, look and feel much older than they are; in general, not at all possessing the qualities

The two poems, 'Dulce et decorum est' and 'Who's for the game?' are both very different war poems. Although they were both written about the First World War, they both had different purposes. The poems have aspects in which they are similar, but they also have very big differences.

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

With a distraught tone in this poem, the next poem features a more passionate and inspiring tone for the reader. The poem “If We Must Die” has a more positive tone even though the setting is an upsetting scene. With soldiers lined up, knowing they will die in their upcoming battle, their leader gives a very inspiring speech about how important it is to fight with honor. In line 5 where the narrator quotes, “If we must die, O let us nobly die”, he wants the soldiers to fight like men and to be brave, not to fight like cowards. The leader’s courageous speech most likely worked on his troops to encourage them into war

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Some of the themes from the poems are similar, such as the obvious war and death, but the main theme and message is different. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ focuses more at patriotism and how war actually affects soldiers. ‘The Man He Killed’ looks past politics and the rules that we should hate our enemies, and shows them from a human perspective. Thomas Hardy’s poem which suggests that even though they’re fighting for the opposing country, they are still the same in some sense, can be backed up by the example of when in 1914 the English and German soldiers put down their guns and played football together. Hardy’s poem is a statement that people who actually fight in wars should not be fighting. As, in fact, if they were to meet in different circumstances they would have been friends. This is shown in the poem when it says ‘you’d shoot a fellow down... if you met where any bar is, you’d help to half a crown.’ This quote is saying how strange it is that you would kill a man, who in any other circumstances, you would probably get along with.

this, such as: "Cannon to the left of them, / Cannon to the right of

“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”