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Compare the Different Attitudes to War Shown in the Poetry of Tennyson and Owen
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Todd Simmons Compare the Different Attitudes to War Shown in the Poetry of Tennyson and Owen I have studied two poems 'The Charge of The Light Brigade', by Alfred Lord Tennyson, a poet laureate, and 'Dulce et Decorum est', which was written by Wilfred Owen, who served as a soldier in world war one. There is a very large difference between the attitude to war in the different poems, 'The Charge of The Light Brigade' was secondary evidence because Tennyson read his information for the poem in an article and was inspired, while Owen, on the other hand, is speaking in first hand evidence as he was a soldier in the famous trench wars, on the front line. Tennyson was inspired by the bravery of the soldiers of the Light Brigade and was intrigued by the article and decided to write a poem to commemorate the sheer glory of the courage. The poem emphorcises...
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