Using the poems Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennsion Dirge of the Dead Sisters and The last of the Light Brigade both keeping how attitudes to war are shown in the poems’

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War poetry

        ‘Using the poems Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennsion Dirge of the Dead Sisters and The last of the Light Brigade both keeping how attitudes to war are shown in the poems’

        The three poems that we are reading are all written at different times and places in the war. The Charge of the Light Brigade was written as the battle was actually happening. The Dirge of the dead sisters was written behind the front line where all the injured soldiers went, and the poems concentrates on the way that the nurses were, like the condition that they had too work in and the facilities that they had. The last of the light brigade is all about after the war has finished and after the men have become heroes, they are sat in the street with no money and they asked him they could write a poem on the suffering that have had after the war.

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        The charge of the light brigade shows a side if war that isn’t seen today. This attitude is to do as you were told to, this meant even if you knew that you were going to die. For example

        ‘Theirs not to make reply,

        Theirs not to reason why,

        Theirs but to do and die.’

This is one example from the poem that shows what the attitude to war was in those days by the way that the writer Tennison has captured the mood in which the soldiers saw there role in the war to do as they ...

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