John Scott disagrees with war he says it brings misery. Tennyson blames it on the generals.
The Poets Attitude To War on the two poems with similarities and differences. The two poets dislike the attitude to war and death. They both despise the generals who give the order to the soldiers. The light brigade praises the solider that ride into almost certain death but the drum dislikes everything about war.
The Poets Language And Imagery on the two poems with similarities and differences. The two poets create images very vividly. The light brigade shows horrible images where as the drum isn’t as gruesome.
In The Drum first stanza of the first line he uses repetition. In the first stanza John Scott talks about how the army come out with their drum and beat it. The young come out because they know it is recruiting members. He shows are the young are thoughtless and don’t like about what they are doing. The Commanders and leaders do not care about the men only about themselves.
In the second stanza he repeats the first two lines of the first stanza, this is to show that they go around until they pick up almost everyone in the town or villages. He also condemns are stupid they are for going out and following g the army. He mentions of how families are destroyed.
In stanza one, John Scott show he hates war, he gives us an image of what war and the drum recruiting was like. “To Thoughtless Youth It Pleasure Yields” “To Sell Their Liberties For Charms”. This gives me an image of young men running out of their homes and following behind the army. The young men come from everywhere cities and d from fields. “ And When Ambitions Voice Commands To March, and fight, and fall In Foreign lands”. This is and image of the commander telling them to charge and fight the enemy and then be killed in a different country.
In Stanza two lines 3and 4 Scott tell us of how it reminds him of ruined crops, burning towns and ruined young lives from them joining the army. In lines 5 and 6 he tells us of broken legs and dying groans of young men in pain. The wives tears, and their children’s moans. In lines 7 and 8he tell us of the wives Misery and pain of the young.
Scott creates a sad story line and makes us feel sorrow for the young men “To sell their liberty for charms” This means giving their life away to go to war for their country, you feel sorrow for them. Another line is “And mangled limbs, and dying groans and widows tears, and orphan moans” This creates a mood of pain feeling for them. The wives have no husbands now and the children no dads. It makes you feel sorrow for them.
In The Charge Of The Light Brigade in the first stanza of the first line he uses repetition “Half a league, half a league onward”. This is to show the horsemen running into battle in which the will most certainly die.
On the third line of the first stanza he says, “All in the valley of death rode the six hundred”. He is saying here that they will die.
In the second stanza lines 4,5 and 6 Scott writes “ Theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die”. This means that they don’t dare answer back just do their duty and die. It was a commander who was not even there who told them to go and fight. They didn’t know that their had been a mistake.
In the third stanza 1,2 and 3, Scott wrote, “Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, and cannon in front of them”. This basically means they were totally surrounded by the enemies and were most certainly going to die.
In the fourth stanza lines 1,2,3,4 and 5 John Scott wrote about the way the men went into the battle. “ Flashed all their sabres bare, flashed as they turned in air, sabring the gunners their charging an army, while all the world wondered” This means that the army were sent into battle outnumbered but still they tried to win with all their heart. All the world wondered why they were sent into battle outnumbered and wanted an explanation.
In The last stanza lines 5 and 6, “Honour the light brigade, noble six hundred”. What this really means is to honour the brave men who went into battle without a hope and died.
John Scott divides the poem into sections, every other line there is a different rhyming word or different meaning. “ I hate that drums discordant sound parading round, and round, and round “. Shows how he hates the army going around trying to recruit. Then the next to lines tell a different story “ To thoughtless youth It pleasure yields and lures fro m cities and from fields” This tells us how the youth were attracted and were they came from.
Tennyson has little rhyming words in his poem. There are some words on the end of lines that rhyme with other words, but not much. “Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, and cannon in front of them, volleyed an thundered stormed at with shot and shell”. The first three lines rhyme but the last two don’t.
I Prefer The Charge Of The Light Brigade, it is more exciting and it makes you want to read on to find out what happens to the six hundred. It kind of makes you feel sorrow for the six hundred but as it was not in my time I don’t feel that much sorrow.
