Compare and Contrast Wilfred Owens ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and Rupert Brookes ‘The Soldier’

... Compare and Contrast Wilfred Owens 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and Rupert Brookes 'The Soldier' Both of these poems concentrate on the war, but both in very different ways one is very pro-war and the other is very anti-war and they both discuss their ideas in very different ways approaching there readers with very different Ideas. Rupert Brooke tells of war as a sweet and lovely thing while on the other hand Owen tells of it, as an old lie told by the monarchy. Owen tried to get his message through to his readers by shocking them with horrific mental images, "If you could hear every jolt, the blood Comes gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile as incurable sores on innocent tongues" He uses words with frightening and repulsive meanings, and he tries to get all your senses working by letting feel, see and hear everything, e.g.

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