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War Poems Chloe Torrance Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen and For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon are two famous poems written during the period of World War One. They both contrast with one another about the life of soldiers in the war. Laurence Binyon served with the Red Cross, only visiting the front during 1916, the final year of the war. However, he wrote the poem in 1914. Therefore his poem is clearly uninfluenced by any actual war events, bar the exception of soldiers marching to war. Which is not incredibly useful seeing as the soldiers themselves will not have experienced the war either. It is his own view of how and what the war is. Consequently, the poem could be described as a propagandist point of view, as it is very idealistic. The poem itself consists of six stanzas, and is written in past tense, which baffles...

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