Compare the ways in which poets memorably convey their feelings about war and soldiers in three of the following poems : Dulce et Decorum Est (Owen), The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson), Vitai Lampada (Newbolt), The Man he Killed (Hardy).

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Compare the ways in which poets memorably convey their feelings about war and soldiers in THREE of the following poems :
Dulce et Decorum Est (Owen)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson)
Vitai Lampada (Newbolt)
The Man he Killed (Hardy)


 

       
The three poems which i have chosen are Dulce et Decorum Est, Vitai Laumpacta and The Charge of the light Brigade.
In Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen is describing soldiers who are returning from battle and are struck by a gas shell, what it was really like actually being there, and how horrible it is to be there and witness it happening.
But then in Vitai Laumpacta, Newbolt is comparing the tension of the last man in a cricket match from when he was at school to the last man in a war in the middle of a desert where many died.
On the other hand, in The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson is re-telling the story of the charge in the Crimean War, which did not go to plan and the Captain sent the light Brigade to their deaths.



   
In the poem, 'Dulce et Decorum Est', Owen is describing what it's really like to be a soldier in war. He reveals how exhausted soldiers get and how slow their reactions get due to their tiredness.

In the first stanza, owen is describing how the soldiers are feeling. He uses rhyme, for example "Sludge/Trudge" and "Boots/Hoots". Owen also uses a number of similes, for example "Coughing like hags" is a simile which is in the first stanza. I think by that Owen was trying to say that there were many ill soldiers, and they still had to go on. There is also a metaphor in this stanza, "Men marched asleep", this is a strong and effective phrase. Using that metaphor, Owen was basically tipping off just how tired they were, as if the soldiers could only just stay asleep.

The rythm of the first stanza gives a slow, exhausted effect to the poem, Owen used the words cleverly to create jsut the tight rythm.
The second stanza is focused on when a gas shell was thrown at the soldiers who are marching back from the battle, Owen uses lots of rhymes in this stanza. He also uses effective metaphors, for example "ecstacy of fumbling", with this metaphor, Owen is explaining what the soldier who didnt get his gasmask on in time looked like through a gasmask.The soldier was dying, but there was nothing anyone could do.Owen also uses a simile in this stanza, "a man in fire or lime", with this he is describing the soldier as he ran around in pain screaming his head off, as if he was on fire or had lime on him.
In the final stanza, there isn't much happening, it is explaining how the soldier who was dying on the wagon looked to Owen. He uses the simile "Like a devil's sick of sin", i found this simile very effective for describing the head of a soldier who was dying, with his head hanging off of the wagon.

In this poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen is explaining the horros, and the truth to the people back home, including Jessie Pope. He is telling the people at home that it isn't an honourable thing to do, to go out and die in pain, and that it is a horrible experience.

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    The poem, 'The Charge of The Light Brigade', was written in the Crimean War by Alfred Tennyson, he was the poet Laureate at the time. His poem is about a military disaster where roughly six hundred soldiers were falsely sent to charge right into enemy gunfire, many cannons by their captain. This was named the 'Charge of the Light Brigade'.
Unlike Owen, Tennyson was not a witness of what he was writing about. Owen was a soldier in the first world war, and he was writing about the horrors of what happened, he writes from ...

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