Compare and contrast Tennysons The Charge Of The Light Brigade and Wallaces War showing how the two poets express very different attitudes to warfare.

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Compare and contrast Tennysons The Charge Of The Light Brigade and Wallaces War showing how the two poets express very different attitudes to warfare.

We are doing coursework to show the difference between two poems about war. The poems are the Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfed Lord Tennyson and War by Edgar Wallace. Edgar Wallace who had first hand experience of war as a medical orderly thinks that war is a horrible thing, he think thinks there is no reason for the violence and the suffering. But Alfred Lord Tennyson Thinks it is a duty for every man to do when called upon he believes that it is for king and country he believes that if you die in war you are a hero but Wallace believes that you are a fool for dieing and making your wife and kids morn over your death. Most people see it as one are the other it is hard to believe both.

The charge of the light brigade was a poem, which was directly focusing on the heroic side of war which is excellent if you want the battle to be remembered as great battle I would reckon that most of the men in the Crimean war would believe In, king and country which is in my opinion the most valiant thing to, but not the most sensible. They believe it is their duty to fight to save their country. Alfred Tennysons background was that he was a famous poet he was the Queens appointed poet. He had no experience of battle personally. He just read Russells article about the battle in the Times newspaper report. So he did not see any blood or death. His poem was over the Crimean war from 1854-1856 the war was over Russia becoming to powerful because they were going to expand south into Turkey so France and Britain tried to stop them.

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The poem tells us about the battle of balakava, where the light cavalry brigade were send to stop them they were send by mistake up the middle of the valley surrounded by cannons to fight the Russians at the far end. Only 200 of the 600 lived to tell the tale.

Stanza one in poem begins by saying half a league, half a league, half a league onward this gets you into the rhythm of the poem and it reflects by sound like the horses hooves going in to battle. In the next line it states all in ...

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