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Paul Bodman Compare the different attitudes to war shown in Dulce et Decorum est and The charge of the Light Brigade Both of the two poems are about war, but they convey completely different attitudes. This essay will compare and contrast them. Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum est was influenced by his own personal experience of war. He fought in France during World War 1, and had seen the horrific conditions soldiers endured, which are described in his poems. It can be said that his non glorifying approach in his poems is caused by what he had seen. Unlike Tennyson, Owen describes the real conditions in considerable detail, and fills his poems with much social criticism and protest, for example "He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning" This is effective because it gets the audience to think about why they are stereotyping the soldiers as bold and brave, like Tennyson's poems, when...

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