The Soldier & Dulce et Decorum est Comparison

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The Soldier & Dulce st Decorum est

I will be comparing two poems in this essay, The Soldier, (1915) By Rupert Brooke, and Dilce et Decorum est (1917) By Wilfred Owen. I will be comparing the views of both writters and also the techniques/language they use to convey that view.

Both writters have distiinct views on war. The poems are similar in the simple fact they are about war itself, but the views and messages within the poems are at compleate opposite ends of the spectrum. Both writters potray their views in different ways, for example, Rupert Brooke has chosen to describe his dead body as a symbol for England. "If i should die, think only this of me:" the poem then goes on to describe England in a very patriotic way, "In hearts at peace, under an English heaven." The words "peace" and "heaven" create a peaceful, and heavenly feel within the poem, they are calming, soothing words, and they give the poem that edge or serenity. Then, on the other hand Wilfred Own has chosen too depict a war gorssome story that he himself had witnessed. He use's words suck as "Blood-shod" and phrases like "Obscene as cancer" to emphisise the the horror's of war, also taking the reader to a level of understanding with the butality in war, brutality that isnt usualy flaunted.
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The language used in both poems is vastly different from each other, even though both poems were about war. Wilfred Owen uses language in Dulce Et Decorum Est to give the reader the impression that war is horrible and that dying for your country is not all the glory and honour that it seems, and that in reality, dying in a war, no matter for what cause, can be both painful and full of suffering. "He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." This line depicts pain an suffering the reader cannot begin to imagine. There is also many ...

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