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Comparing and Contrasting War Poems In this essay, I have decided to analyse two poems by the war poet Wilfred Owen, taken from his writings on the First World War. Both of these poems ('Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Exposure') portray Owen's bitter angst towards the war, but do so in very different ways and 'Vitai Lampada' by Henry Newbolt and comparing it to 'A Soldier' by Rupert Brook. First of all I will be comparing the 2 war poems by Owen. His most famous poem, 'Dulce et Decorum Est', is a fine example of his narrative, first-person poems, written through his own eyes and based on his own experiences and views of the war. Using four clear stanzas, the poem uses standard, alternate rhyming lines. A slow, painstaking rhythm is established at the beginning of the poem through Owen's use of heavy, long words and end-stop lines, in order to...

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