Comparing Dulce et Decorem Est with Charge of the Light Brigade Essay

Comparing Dulce et Decorem Est with Charge of the Light BrigadeAlthough both Dulce et decorousness Est and The Charge of the LightBrigade are about battle and the goal of soldiers, they portray theexperience of war in different focusings. The main digression between thepoems is the message they express. They seem to be writing about altogether different wars. Wilfred Owens poem Dulce et Decorum Est,was write from his point of view as a soldier in the war. It is much more personal and eindigence than Charge of the Light Brigade.Tennysons poem, on the other hand was written as one of his duties asthe Poet Laureate at the time. It lacks the detail and as well thepersonal experience that Owenss poem has, and gives the impressionthat Tennyson does not actually care about the war very much and doesnot sack out much about it. Charge of the Light Brigade was written to immortalize a suicidal charge by light cavalry everywhere open terrain byBritish forces in the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War. 247 menof the 637 in the charge were killed or wounded.Tennyson wrote Light Brigade in a few minutes after reading thedescription in The clock of the Battle of Balaclava in 1854. His poemincreased the morale of the British soldiers fighting in the CrimeanWar and of the people at home, however Tennyson had not been an eyewitnessto the battle he describes.I think Tennysons motive for writing this poem was to glorify the actof war, I feel he wanted to celebrate the bravery of the six hundredBritish legions who went to battle knowing that they were going to die.I think this because from my own fellowship I know Lord Tennyson wasthe poet Laureate at the time of the Crimean war, but did not witnessany fight... ...atin is used. This contrastswith the rest of the poem and makes it more dramatic. The subscriberlingers on the last phrase to work out what it means and it makes moreof an impact on them in Latin than it would in English. The last lineof Charge of the L ight Brigade is also very dramatic. As I havealready mentioned, it refers to the soldiers all the way through thepoem as the six hundred and then at the end refers to them as the solemn six hundred as if the war is over and the soldiers are prideful at the end of the poem.Overall I prefer Dulce et Decorum Est as it much more powerful toread. It is well structures and uses a lot of alliteration, assonance, much(prenominal) as white eyes writhing and repetition all the way through. Itmakes the reader feel guilty, angry and understand the pain andsuffering that the soldiers went through in a subtle way.