![]() ![]() In "Dulce et Decorum Est" the words "sludge" and "trud. Both poets use sounds effects to convey the tone of the poem. Tennyson uses repeated words at the end of sentences such as: "them", "them and "them" in the third stanza, or repeated sounds such as: "bare", "air" and "there" in the fourth stanza. Despite this, the rhymes are not the major feature of the poem and so does not stand out as much as Tennyson's poem, which relies on rhyming for the tone of the poem. The rhyming in "Dulce et Decorum Est" is surprisingly more regular (ABAB rhyming scheme) than Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of The Light Brigade". ![]() This is partly because Owen's point of view was written from a first-hand experience whereas Tennyson didn't attend the Battle of Balaclava (the battle his poem was based on) and so only heard glorified reports of the event. Tennyson sounds heroic and gallant, proud to be at war. However in Tennyson's "The Charge of The Light Brigade" his attitude is very unlike Owen's. He includes vivid descriptions of events throughout battles and felt as though the war was a waste of young, innocent lives. Owen, who was a soldier and fought on the front line during the war, had a very different attitude to fighting. At the second stanza in Bayonet Charge the soldier begins to doubt why hes is fighting the war, while in The Charge of the Light Brigade the soldiers. ![]() The Charge of the Light Brigade is an emotive poem which both praises and laments the action of the battle. Pope was encouraging people to go to war and fight for their country in with a glorified tone and ironically she was unaware of the atmosphere of the war. Tennysons job as poet laureate was to capture the public mood. Owen is responding directly to a poem written by Jessie Pope. This time difference meant approaches to war were different and hence the tones of the poems are very dissimilar. The main difference though, which leads to many other differences in the two poems are that they were written very in different centuries and times. These poems both have a main subject of war. The poems I am going to compare and contrast are "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "The Charge of The Light Brigade" by the Poet Laureate of his time, Lord Tennyson. ![]()
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