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Compare the different attitudes to war shown the poetry of Tennyson and Owen.
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Compare the different attitudes to war shown the poetry of Tennyson and Owen. In this essay I am going to compare the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owen, which have very different attitudes to war. " The Charge of the Light Brigade" written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1854 has a theme of romantic honourable fighting for the queen and country. This poem was written from a news article by W.H. Russell for The Times about the famous charge on the 25th October 1854. "Dulce et Decorum est" was written by Captain Wilfred Owen in the worst winter of 1917. From primary evidence Owen questions the title in a sarcastic way to bring out sympathy and the true pity of warfare. One major difference between the poems is that Tennyson is pro war and feels that it is "sweet and fitting to die for ones country". While Owen reveals the...
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