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Compare and Contrast the Presentation of War in "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "After Blenheim".
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Compare and Contrast the Presentation of War in "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "After Blenheim" For this piece of coursework I will be comparing each of the poems mentioned above to each other and commenting on the way they present war and how it reflects the poet's views on war. Charge of the Light Brigade The story of the poem is about six hundred soldiers who were given the wrong orders by their commanders and were sent to their death because of someone else's mistake. They had been ordered to charge the wrong valley which lead straight into the enemy's guns. In the first stanza when the soldiers are given their orders they don't question them even though they know that they are wrong, "not to make reply... not to reason why". We are told that they know the commands are wrong when we read " someone...
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