The Comparison of Attitude to War Between Dulce Et Decorum Est and the Charge of the Light Brigade

The comparison of attitude to war between Dulce Et Decorum Est and The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Although both poems are written about war, Own and Tennyson show very different attitudes towards war. In The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Tennyson creates a very positive attitude towards war. He glorifies war, and shows how heroic the soldiers fighting in this war were. On the other hand, Owen shows the real side to war, and the cruel actuality of war, as he describes the atrocious things that happen to soldiers in war.

In The Charge Of The Light Brigade, Tennyson uses imagery to put across his attitude towards war. This attitude is one of war being positive and it is being used to make war a sort of propaganda. Sibilance is used to engage the reader. "Shatter'd and Sunder'd"" This also creates a sense of the situation being awful by using the S sound like the hissing of a snake, which has negative connotations, but that suggests that Tennyson's attitude of war is one of great gratitude, as the soldiers have to go through great peril. This phrase is also and onomatopoeia. This makes the reader engaged through the imagery with the action that is unfolding to make it feel like you are there fighting in this terrible war, and is also used to further glorify the 600. It also of creates the image of sharp, and daunting things happening all around them and it being an inescapable place. This creates even more honour for the soldiers that survived as the hissing sounds of the sibilance engulf the reader. This is proven when Tennyson writes "When can their glory fade?", as this suggests that the soldiers are amazing warriors, and that war is a good thing, as it makes ordinary people heroes.

On the other hand, Owen shows a different attitude towards war through imagery through the simile "bent double like old beggars under sacks." This simile shows the negative attitude towards war by saying how when you are in war, it makes you shabby like a beggar, and you don't look the same anymore. This creates a sense of war being a terrible place to be, and how men should not go to war, and that war is a terrible thing. This phrase also suggests how war is so horrible, that it changes you, not only on the outside, but also on the inside because by saying "like old beggars under