Comparison Between Dulce et Decorum Est and The Soldier

As both poets have different opinions about war, in fact, almost opposite opinions, each poet uses different types of diction, figurative language, imagery, sounds, and tones to achieve his purpose. In The Soldier, Rupert Brooke uses both fluid and long, yet well-linked sentences for his poem, thus giving the reader a soothing effect, for example, he only has three sentences over fourteen lines, and he uses a sentence such as, “And think, this heart, all evil shed away, a pulse in the eternal mind, no less gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; her sights and sounds; dreams happy as

In The Soldier, Rupert Brooke, used relatively few, but the strongest used by him was the personification of England as a mother, with the words “England bore”, “her day” and “her sights and sounds”. The metaphors he used, also implies some neo paganistic ideas, such as “pulse in the eternal mind”. While, Wilfred Owen, in Dulce Et Decorum Est, uses many metaphors, such as “thick green light” and “under a green sea, I saw him drowning.” Which is actually, him seeing someone suffering from the gas, with the green glass of the gas mask, causing him to see everything as green, including air.

The rhyme schemes of both poems are also different, The Soldier uses the rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efgefg, which is that of the Italian sonnet, and it is written in iambic pentameter. By doing so, Rupert Brooke gives the reader a musical kind of feeling and that it gives a sense of quite contemplation of what’s yet to come. While for Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen uses, abab, cdcd, efef, ghgh, ijij, klkl, mnmn, in a three 8-lined stanza, with an additional quatrain in the last stanza format, it has a sharp and sudden kind of rhythm, almost like shots from a gun, very different from that of The Soldier, which is smooth and fluid.

her day; and laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven.” That one sentence itself, consists of almost half the entire poem and the entire last stanza, but is extremely well linked, and with the smooth flow, the reader hardly realizes it. In Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen uses short and sudden sentences for his poem, thus creating a cacophonic and harsh effect, for example, “Men marched asleep”, “Many had lost their boots” and “But limped on, blood-shod.”

In the second stanza of Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen uses phrases such as “ecstasy of fumbling”, “thick green light”, “under a green sea”, “saw him drowning”, “in all my dreams” and “plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”, giving the reader the image of a group of soldiers rushing to put on gas masks, with the glass or plastic of the mask, causing one to see everything in green, and that

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