The two poems Lord Tennysons “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” and Wilfred Owens “Dulce Et Decorum Est” are two poems that capture the experience of war. But that’s the only similarities. Lord Tennyson, writing from england about the the battle of Balaclava (Britain v’s Russia in 1854), Tennyson?s poem celebrates the glory of war and heroism despite the fact that, because of an error of judgment, six hundred soldiers were sent to their deaths

According to my research Owen?s poem might of almost have been written as a challenge to Tennyson?s rousing and heroic sentiments. He presents the horror of senseless death in trenches and shows us that the famous line “it is sweet and becoming to die for your country”, is a lie

WI have researched that Tennyson wrote 'Light Brigade? in a few minutes after reading the description in The Times of the Battle of Balaclava in 1854. He was a civilian poet, as opposed to a soldier poet like Owen. His poem 'Charge of the Light Brigade? incre

But limped on, blood-shod. The men are not really marching, or if they are it is a death march. These men are so tired that they are like old women and beggars floundering through the mud. They are the opposite of Tennyson?s 'Noble six hundred?. Owen?s picture is not glorious at all and the very first line would shock people at home who imagined the men gallantly charging forward to attack. Owen catches the mood of the scene very well. The first stanza is very slow and inactive and such words like 'trudge? capture the atmosphere. He says 'we? when he?s talking about the men?s actions so we are reminded that he was there. The second stanza is very active and frantic in comparison. This shows the agonizing tedium the men had to put up with and then suddenly they could be killed instantly after a rush of adrenaline.

Owen gives us a detailed picture of the war: he talks in the first person, 'I saw him drowning?, and describes one dying man, in contrast to Tennyson?s rather impersonal 'six hundred?. He wants us to imagine that we are actually there on the battlefield so we get an idea of what it was like. This poem is the closest we will get to experiencing such atrocities and if we had, Owen tells us in the final lines, then we would not try to glorify the war any more. In the Preface to his poems, published after his death, Owen wrote, 'All a poet can do today is warn. That is why true poets must be truthful?.

ased the morale of the British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War and of the people at home, but Tennyson had not been an eyewitness to the battle he describes.

This not only shows how the soldier is suffering, but that he is in terrible pain. The reader can imagine the soldier?s life flickering away.

there is a regular rhythm pattern which is three beats per line, for example “forward the light brigade” has two beats and “was there a man dismayed?”. two beats in that line too. In these lines he uses stressed and unstressed rhythm which helps you imagine the horses galloping into battle. But in stanza four the rhythm is jumbled up. For example “plunged in the battery smoke”, three beats in that line

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.?

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