Compare and Contrast the Charge of the Light Brigade and Dulce Et Decorum Est
Compare and contrast the two poems ‘Dulce
Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The two poems ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ were both written during in a war. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was written October 1917 during world war one (WW1). The earliest surviving manuscript is the letter he sent it to his Mother, Susan Owen, with the message “Here is a gas poem done yesterday, (which is not private, but not final)”. Wilfred Owens poetry was one of the most famous poets for the First World War. He was born in 1893 and died 1918 one week before the end of WW1. People were quite used to his poems being violent and realistic mainly because he was he had firsthand experience of war. ‘The Charge of The Light Brigade’ was written in 1854 during the Crimean war, it was published in the examiner newspaper December 9th. The Crimean war was the first war to be reported on in newspapers and to have pictures. ‘The Charge of The Light Brigade’ was part of the battle of balaclava. Wilfred Owens poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ is an anti war poem. It tells the reader of a group of soldiers coming back from fighting on the front line; they are forced to trudge ‘through sludge; despite being ‘dunk with fatigue’ marching slowly away from the explosives dropping behind towards ‘distant rest’. The reader and the soldiers believe they are out of danger when gas shells start to fall on them, the soldiers struggle to put on their gas masks, but one man does not make it. The reader is told how the man is ‘yelling out and stumbling / and floundering like a man in fire or lime’. Owen wastes no time in telling the reader that he has to throw the man into the back of a wagon, as if he was a piece of meat, worthless. Then he finishes with talking directly to the reader, telling them that no matter what they thought dying for your country is not a glorious thing and it never will be. The first stanza
Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The two poems ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ were both written during in a war. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was written October 1917 during world war one (WW1). The earliest surviving manuscript is the letter he sent it to his Mother, Susan Owen, with the message “Here is a gas poem done yesterday, (which is not private, but not final)”. Wilfred Owens poetry was one of the most famous poets for the First World War. He was born in 1893 and died 1918 one week before the end of WW1. People were quite used to his poems being violent and realistic mainly because he was he had firsthand experience of war. ‘The Charge of The Light Brigade’ was written in 1854 during the Crimean war, it was published in the examiner newspaper December 9th. The Crimean war was the first war to be reported on in newspapers and to have pictures. ‘The Charge of The Light Brigade’ was part of the battle of balaclava. Wilfred Owens poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ is an anti war poem. It tells the reader of a group of soldiers coming back from fighting on the front line; they are forced to trudge ‘through sludge; despite being ‘dunk with fatigue’ marching slowly away from the explosives dropping behind towards ‘distant rest’. The reader and the soldiers believe they are out of danger when gas shells start to fall on them, the soldiers struggle to put on their gas masks, but one man does not make it. The reader is told how the man is ‘yelling out and stumbling / and floundering like a man in fire or lime’. Owen wastes no time in telling the reader that he has to throw the man into the back of a wagon, as if he was a piece of meat, worthless. Then he finishes with talking directly to the reader, telling them that no matter what they thought dying for your country is not a glorious thing and it never will be. The first stanza