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Chris Adams Compare the different attitudes to war shown in the poetry of Tennyson and Owen The two poems I will be analysing are `Dulce et Decorum est' by Owen and `The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Tennyson. Tennyson and Owen have very different views on war, I think that it is important to look at their reasons for writing the poems, and their backgrounds. Tennyson was poet laureate, and therefore a high profile figure, and expected to write poems. He came from an aristocratic background, and had a higher-class family than Owen. He did not see war for himself; he simply read a newspaper article and wrote his poem as a result of that. His information was secondary, and therefore subject to bias, that was beyond his control. Owen had a much different upbringing, he came from a working class family, but managed to go to university, which...

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