In the poem, The Burial of Sir John Moore, the funeral they have for the major still respected even though it’s in silence and nothing of what a man of his standards or any soldier should be having. The funeral differs a lot from what a funeral would be if the body was brought back home properly. “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note” If that was back home, there would be the complete opposite from that line, all the soldiers would drum and there would be tunes. “Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot” But on the battlefield they couldn’t make any noise what so ever, therefore the funeral was done in silence. The whole way through the poem you still see how much respect the soldiers have for Sir John Moore, even after he’s dead. They still look up to him as the hero that he is.
In the poem “The Remembrance”, Bronte is talking about her partner that has passed away. Her use of first person narration presents the reader of very powerful descriptions about her love and emotions. The month of December is a very cold and miserable season at times. “Cold in the earth – and fifteen wild Decembers” So imagining fifteen of them is what life is like for her without her lover. She is never going to find no one like him, “No later light has lightened up my heaven; No second morn has ever shone for me.”
The form of, The Burial of Sir John Moore, is Eight four-line stanzas. The tone is mainly sadness at the loss of a war hero. The reader also senses the loneliness and fear of the soldiers and their guilty haste and nervousness in burying their hero without any form of ceremony. It has a regular rhyming scheme. It creates a sombre and solemn beat which might remind the reader of a military funeral march. The language is simple throughout the whole poem. The imagery creates a sense of their loneliness and fear and also of their pride and courage.
The form of Remembrance is a lyric poem or lament written in eight four line verses. The tone at first questioning, doubting, then certain and passionately resolved. The mood is one of despair and grief. It is a regular rhyming scheme. It has the regular beat of a hymn, with the emphasis tending to fall at the beginning and half way through each line. There is also a lot of repetition – “cold,” “severed,” “forget,” “hopes,” “my life’s bliss” – to emphasise the effect the death has on the speaker. The bird metaphor in stanza two reflects the flightiness, and inconstancy of human thought. The change of tense in the second half of the poem heralds a change of thought and tone and answers the query raised. She does remember, only too well. “Fifteen wild Decembers” have not succeeded in dulling the “rapturous pain” of memory. The hard, unfeeling words of the first half, expressing the coldness of grief such as “cold,” “wrong,” “sever,” “hover,” “suffering,” “wild” “obscure” give way in the second half to softer words, hymn-like words (not surprising considering her Methodist background) such as “bliss,” “golden,” “joy,” “cherished,” “yearning,” “burning” “rapturous,” “anguish.” These words inject the poem with a passion, which reflects the depth of her emotions when she allows herself the luxury of remembrance.
Out of both poems I think The Burial of Sir John Moore would come across as the saddest, even though it shows fewer emotions than Remembrance. However, the poem isn’t a depressing one to read, it has a kind of excitement to it, to find out what is going to happen. But the actual story line to both poems are very sad, which is clear as they both are about death.
