Meanwhile the theme of "Dulce et Decorum Est" is quite different. Wilfred Owen talks about soldiers that do not want to die for their own country. He doesn't speak in a patriotic way as in "The soldier", but he tells more about the soldiers suffering. He describes how soldiers go to war thinking that it will be a fun adventure and that they could return as high ranked officers, but as they face war they face horrors and they find out that their thoughts were lies. Then he tells that a lot of soldiers die and the survivors get total physical and emotional damage as they face too much horror and violence.
By trying to explain their opinions the authors use different tool when writing the poems. Meanwhile Rupert Brooke uses a celebrative and cheerful tone, Wilfred Owen uses a tone of darkness, fear, suffering and terror. The authors describe totally different things. While Brooke describes the good English people and the beautiful geography in England, Owen describes the suffering of soldiers as the march tired and mood less ready to face their deaths. They use different poetic devices to support their ideas. In "The soldier" Brooke uses a similes (e.g.: Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day) meanwhile in "Dulce et Decorum Est" Owen uses imageries imagery (e.g.: If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood of froth-corrupted lung obscene as cancer bitter as the cud.) and similes (e.g.:Bent double like old beggars under sacks.)
Both of the authors had their own experience in battlefields and they use these to show how they and other soldiers feel about going to war. Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen have opposite opinions as they face war with different points of views.
. It talks about soldiers that do not want to die for their own country. They had gone to war thinking they would have a fun adventure and that they would fight for honor, but they would soon find out that these thoughts were lies. Horror, sadness, tears come with war.
In this poem lots of good things are described about England. Good things like the kindness of the people, the beautiful geography. Rupert Brooke was a young man that was a soldier in WWI, and he thought that war was and honorees thing in which you had to participate. He thought as many as all the soldiers thought in the beginning of World War 1 The tone of this poem is like a celebration song for the loved country.
This poem doesn't have too many poetic devices but devices like Alliteration ( That there's some corner of a foreign field) and a simile (Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day) are used.
In this poem is described how soldiers marched tired and in a bad mood and then they face gas and lots of them died. The tone of this poem is one of darkness, fear, suffering and terror. Between the poetic devices used there are two imagery (one example is: If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood of froth-corrupted lung obscene as cancer bitter as the cud.), there are some similes( one example is: Bent double like old beggars under sacks.) and a Alliteration (But limped on, blood shod).
While Rupert Brooke says that it is an honor to die for his country, because you leave a part of the country in the battlefield, Wilfred Owen says that soldiers do not want to go to war, because they know that it is only suffering. Two soldiers and two different views appear in these poems. While Rupert Brooke is patriotic, Wilfred Owen says that to die for a country and gain honor, is a lie. Wilfred Owen uses and excellent quote to express his feelings: The old Lie: "Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori."
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