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Comparing Dulce et decorum est and the charge of the light Brigade.
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Comparing Dulce et decorum est and the charge of the light Brigade Although both 'Dulce et Decorum Est´ and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade´ are about battle and the death of soldiers, they portray the experience of war in different ways. Tennyson´s poem celebrates the glory of war, despite the fact that, because of an error of judgment ('Someone had blundered´), six hundred soldiers were sent to their death. Owen´s poem, on the other hand, might almost have been written as a challenge to Tennyson´s peom. He presents the horror of senseless death in the trenches and shows us how saying 'it is sweet and becoming to die for your country´, is a lie. Tennyson´s poem is a celebration of the bravery of the six hundred British troops who went into battle against all odds, even though they knew that they would be killed. The poem starts in the middle of the action....
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