Compare and contrast ‘Charge of The Light Brigade’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ Essay

In this essay, I shall be comparing both poesys namely Charge of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Dulce et decorum est. by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen was practiseually a soldier in the war, whereas Alfred, Lord Tennyson had no experience of the battle itself and only wrote the poem based upon the cooperate hand evidence that he either read or heard.Charge of The Light Brigade delivers a strong message base on the theme of the war. The poem gives the impression that war is a sublime and noble act and consists of phrases such as When can their glory fade?, Honour the charge they do and The Noble Six Hundred. This shows that in Alfred Lord Tennysons opinion it is noble and glorious act to fight and die for ones country.Alternatively, Wilfred Owenss poem has a far more minus outlook on war. Contrary to Tennysons noble and proud view of war Owen believes that dying in a war s a horrible, bitter death especially when such an end is as a result of a gas bomb being disch arged in the surrounding area. He recounts graphic and horrific descriptions a soldier gradually dying firearm gasping for air.Some of the phrases that the poet uses to convey the exorbitant horror of the battlefield are He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning, And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs. I believe Wilfred Owen includes these vile descriptions to show the stark reality of war and the eventual(prenominal) human sacrifice that so many of those innocent young men endured while fighting for king and country..While the theme of both poems is of war they are in fact depicting two variant battles. The poem Charge of The Light Brigade was written to commemorate the battle of Balaclava in 1854 while the other poem Dulce et Decorum Est was written to reflect battles of the First World War in 1916.The poem Dulce et Decorum Est tells the story of a young man and his fellow troops who march into war and ascend themsel ves fighting for air when a gas bomb hits the battlefield.