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Compare and contrast the presentations of war and its effects in 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and the 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
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Compare and contrast the presentations of war and its effects in 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and the 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' During the First World War people at home in Britain had divided views about what was occurring in the trenches. Some people thought that fighting in the war and dying for your country was romantic and heroic while others thought that it was cruel and totally barbaric. The truth was nobody in Britain actually knew the torture and pain the soldiers were going through in the trenches. They were constantly under attack from shellfire and there was always the risk of being attacked with mustard gas. Alfred Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owen are two of the most acknowledged war poets; their poetry is remarkably powerful but also surpassingly different. Alfred Tennyson was born in Somersby Lincolnshire where he began to write poetry at an early age. One of Tennyson's closest...
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