Compare the viewpoint on war in Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson And Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen

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Compare the viewpoint on war in

'Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

And 'Dulce et Decorum est' by Wilfred Owen

By Abbi Jerath

In this essay you will notice the differences and similarities between 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'. 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' was written in nineteenth century by Alfred Lord Tennyson. In contrast, 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' was written in the twentieth century by Wilfred Owen. The main similarity we have observed is that they both capture war time experiences. However, the poets' present these events using their own style, and the effect is two completely different observations of war. Alfred Lord Tennyson became a Poet Laureate for Queen Victoria. This meant all his audience were usually upper class, literary comrades. Tennyson had never been to war, and wrote about how he imagined war to be although many people did question his perception of the war. His poem 'Charge or the Light Brigade' was written about the Crimean war, October 1853 - February 1956, when six hundred men were mistakenly sent into a valley full of the opposition, only few survived. It would have