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Compare the attitudes demonstrated between pre-war and at war with Brooke’s poem “The Soldier” and Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum est”
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Compare the attitudes demonstrated between pre-war and at war with Brooke's poem "The Soldier" and Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum est" Dulce et Decorum Est was written at war in 1917 by an English poet and World War I soldier Wilfred Owen. Dulce et decorum est is written in a very bitter manner, by a man who had very strong anti-war sentiments. The 27-line poem, written loosely in iambic pentameter is told from the eyes of Wilfred Owen. The opening line of this poem contains two similes which compares the soldiers to beggars and hags 'bent double, like old beggars under sacks', 'coughing like hags.' This is not how we would portray young, fit, soldiers, but the fact of the matter is that they are no longer fit, they are no longer keen and they barely remain soldiers. War has aged and deteriorated them so much so that they are...
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