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A Comparison of how the poets in ‘Joining the Colours’ and ‘the Send Off’ present the soldiers going into war
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A Comparison of how the poets in 'Joining the Colours' and 'the Send Off' present the soldiers going into war Both poems are similar in that they represent soldiers going to fight for their country. Their actions and emotions towards this show where the poems differ. "The Send-Off" is about soldiers almost being forced to fight, they are lining up to get onto the train with "grimly gay" expressions, and Owen describes their faces, using an oxymoron. "Grim" being the reality- their fearful emotions and "gay" being a 'façade' to the on-lookers. "Joining the Colours" has different imagery here - "There they go marching all in step so gay!" The soldiers seem excited, clearly unaware and naïve to the outcome. They're perception is that the war will be patriotic and thrilling and this shows the possibility that the poem is set at the beginning of the war. "Down the close...
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