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Comparing poems - Sassoon's poem "the kiss" is a poem describing a bullet that he calls "brother lead" and his bayonet " sister steel ". Tennyson's poem " the charge of the Light Brigade"
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Comparing poems coursework Sassoon's poem "the kiss" is a poem describing a bullet that he calls "brother lead" and his bayonet "sister steel". Tennyson's poem " the charge of the Light Brigade" shows six hundred soldiers who go into war and come back defeated although Tennyson makes them sound like heroes when it says "While horse and hero fell they that had fought so well". In Sassoon's poem he makes the bullet seem powerful "blind power" as an impartial objective like the bullet doesn't see right or wrong. And as for the bayonet he takes pride in it and looks after it well as Sassoon calls it "sister steel" as feminine "I guard her beauty clean from rust". Its like the bayonet is more aesthetically pleasing more sharp and slender than the bullet. The language in the charge of the Light Brigade is quite melodramatic "into the jaws of death into the mouth of hell". Although in...
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