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Compare and contrast views of war in Tennyson’s “The Charge Of The Light Brigade” and Owen’s “The Send Off”
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Compare and contrast views of war in Tennyson's "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" and Owen's "The Send Off" Heroism in war has always been a poetic subject, and will always produce varied responses. We will analyse two examples of these varied responses, to study the varied outlooks. Tennyson, on the one hand, presents war as a time of courage and idealistic heroism, in his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade". In direct contrast with this, Owen takes a much darker prospective as shown in his poem "The Send-off". He presents a view of the hopeless feeling of these soldiers being shipped off to war which they are unlikely to return from. Both poems will be compared in relation to their views on heroism in war, in the course of this essay. The two poems both deal with parallel themes, yet further analysis shows the clear contrasts that exist between their outlooks...
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