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How do the Charge of the Light Brigade and Dulce et Decorum est present differing ideas of war and human suffering?

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The Charge Of the Light Brigade

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Dulce et decorum est

How do the Charge of the Light Brigade and Dulce et Decorum est present differing ideas of war and human suffering?

Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owens poems are both based on war but each poem looks at the war in different ways. Charge of the Light Brigade glorifies the war, where Dulce Et Decorum Est has a horrific view on war. Both poems give a different message about the war.

The Charge of the Light Brigade talks about the battle and the death of soldiers who fort. Alfred, lord Tennyson talks about the glory of the war and how people honored them after the war.

In the Charge of the Light Brigade, Alfred, Lord Tennyson tells us that war is very glamorous and that you should fight for your country. "honor the charge they made". The poet uses these word to try and tell us that people who are fighting in the war will get thanks. People would look at them and honor them. The mood of the poem is very happy. The poet does this to try

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