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Comparison Of the Two War Poems - "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Charge of the Light Brigade"
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Comparison Of the Two War Poems - "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Charge of the Light Brigade" You can tell from the off-set of "Dulce et Decorum Est" that Wilfred Owen doesn't see the supposed honour of war in the same light as those who made the old saying that names his poem. In the first line of the poem the description of the men and the conditions in the trenches are described in what would seem to be disgust. Wilfred Owen tries to show how little honour he sees in the war these men are fighting for. The use of similes such as "like old beggars under sacks" and "coughing like hags", along with the use of metaphors like "Drunk with fatigue" and "deaf even to the hoots", brings the image to mind of a filthy wretch, bereft of their senses, forced by circumstance to trudge in the dirt towards some...
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