Compare The Soldier and Dulce et Decorum Est

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Compare The Soldier and Dulce et Decorum Est

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The Soldier by Rupert Brooke and Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen were both written during world war one. War and death are the themes of both poems but they are written from different perspectives. Brooke seems to base his poem on myth because overall he says that it is good to die for your country while fighting at war is terrible and that it is every soldier for himself and not for your country.

There are many reasons why Brooke and Owen have different attitudes to war. For example Brook wrote The Soldier at the beginning of the war but Owen wrote it in 1916. Brooks wrote his poem as someone who hasn’t been at war and at this time people thought that the war would not last for long, but Owen did fight in the war but was written half way through the war. Brooke says that it is good to die at war while fighting for your country, yet Owen says that life is terrible at war especially in the trenches  

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In The Soldier Brooke promotes the glory of war and portrays death so a natural process. He sees it as a natural process because he believes that thoughts that fight for their country and die in war are honourable and are patriots to their country. He believes that where an English man dies while fighting for his country will fall and where they fall means that, that part of land is English.

   

While Brooke mentions nothing of the pain and of death and the unpleasant ways soldiers die in war, in Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen ...

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