Comparing Dulce E Decorum Est And The Charge Of The Light Brigade

1854 to 1856 there was a terrible war being fought by Russia against France, England and Turkey. There was no war in Europe for quite a while, so people seemed to have forgotten soldiers require food and clothing. A great poet, Laureate, who was a great poet. Left a picture of the war in his poetry that he called. “The Charge of the light Brigade,” a wonderfully written poem. The war left soldiers very wounded and they had no one to take care of them, while they were far away from home. Florence Nightingale attempted to write a letter to the war of Department, but at the same time the War Department wrote a letter to her, stating that she was the women for the job, to take this great task. Florence Nightingale quickly accepted the task

The title itself alludes to “The Unknown Soldier,” almost parodying it. According to Georgia Virtual School, an unknown soldier died in battle, however, the body is unrecognizable. It is also known that soldiers are tagged. The fact that the title is the way it is and the subtitle mimics a tag implies that the lives of common folk is so insignificant and uneventful that they might just as well be unknown since they are just another face in the vast crowd of people. This relays a metaphor in the eyes of the reader.

Compare how poets present World War 1 in ‘Mametz Wood’ and one other poem you studied

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

“Two Friends”and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” are both tales of brave men, who were willing to die for their cause.The “Two Friends” short story and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” poem show the themes of courage and honor through tone, repetition, and rhetorical question.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

Poets have written love poems for centuries with the first said to be around 1000BC. But what is love? It is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘ to have attachment to and affection for’. However, after studying various love poems, I have found that love is portrayed in many different ways. It can be possessive, hateful and pure and the fact that William Shakespeare said ‘The course of true love never did run smooth’ suggests that love is more complicated than a simple dictionary definition.

This would start to change during the War of 1812. Often referred to as the “Second War of Independence,” the conflict inspired a fresh wave of patriotism in a generation too young to remember the Revolution. When Key declared that “our flag was still there,” he fused the physical symbol of the nation with universal feelings of patriotism, courage, and resilience. By giving the flag a starring role in one of the most celebrated victories of the war, Francis Scott Key’s song established a new prominence for the flag as an expression of national identity, unity, and pride. And by giving it a name—that Star-Spangled Banner—Key transformed the official emblem into something familiar and evocative, a symbol that Americans could connect with and

     Virgil opens the ‘Aeneid’ with the words ARMA virumque cano ( I sing of arms and of men). The central role that war plays in this Roman epic is made apparent from the very first word of the ‘Aeneid’ by the emphatic placing of the word arma at the very beginning of the poem. A fair chunk of Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ is set on the battle field but its violent and gory descriptions of death and its frequent battles alone cannot make this poem an anti-war poem. Virgil does not merely use the notion of war to further his plot but deals with many types and aspects of war throughout the entirety of his book; mythological wars; recent wars; their effects; their causes; and often one is

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The poem “Charge of the Light Brigade” tells a story about 600 soldiers, who rode horseback, into the “valley of death”. They were obeying the command of the man in charge, and charged at the enemy forces that had been seizing their guns. All the soldiers knew that their commander had made a terrible mistake in judgment, but they did not get discouraged or down about it. They knew that the role of a soldier was to obey and “not to make a reply…not to reason why,” so they followed the orders and rode into the “valley of death”. They were shot at by canons from the right, left, and front of them, but they still boldly rode forward into the “jaws of Death”. The soldiers struck the enemy gunners with their “sabres bare” and charged the enemy

In 1964, the well-known historian Moses Finley suggested that we should move the narrative of the Trojan War from the realm of history into the realm of myth and poetry until we have more evidence. Many would argue that we now have that additional evidence, particularly in the form of the Hittite texts discussing Ahhiyawa and Wilusa and the new archaeological data from Troy. The lines between reality and fantasy might be blurred, particularly when Zeus, Hera, and other gods become involved in the war, and we might question about some of the details. The problem in providing definitive answers to the questions of the Trojan War is not that we have too little data, but that we have too much. The Greek epics, Hittite records, Luwian poetry, and archaeological remains provide evidence not of a single Trojan war but rather of multiple wars that were fought in the area that we identify as Troy and the Troad. Eric Cline believed that just as an Egypto-Hittite war in the 13th century BCE was touched off by the death of a Hittite prince and the outbreak of World War I was sparked by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. He discusses that also just as one could argue that World War I would have taken place anyway, perhaps triggered by some other event, so one can argue that the Trojan War would inevitably have taken place, with or without Helen. He goes on to continue that the presumptive kidnapping of Helen can be seen merely an excuse to launch a pre-ordained war for control

It was during the Elizabethan age that England felt the complete effect of the Renaissance. There occurred a revival of the old and classical literature of Greece and Rome and this was manifested in the poetry of the age. The Elizabethan age was characterized by an extreme spirit of adventure, aestheticism and materialism which became the characteristic features of Elizabethan poetry. Many poets displayed their skill in versification during this time and England came to be called The Nest Of Singing Birds.

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Sometimes you come to hate things not because of what they are, but because of what meant to you. They haven’t done anything particularly done anything to you directly. But them being in your presence doesn’t help. I don’t hate a lot of things, and in literature, that list is even smaller. Through my experiences in 12th grade, I realized my new-found hatred for confessional poetry and its effects. Due to my experiences, I don’t appreciate or rather take notice to literature that might be very interesting.