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Comparing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. 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 very 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 rousing sentiments. He presents the horror of senseless death in the trenches. He was a civilian poet, as opposed to a soldier poet like Owen. His poem "Light Brigade" increased the morale of the British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War and of the people at home, but Tennyson had not been an eyewitness to the battle...

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