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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, IS IT?  

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, IS IT? Examine the various attitudes towards war displayed in your anthology. In this piece of coursework I shall be comparing four different poems form the pre1914 period. These poems shall be "the Charge of the Light Brigade", "The man he killed", "Come up form the fields father" and "After Blenhiem" and seeing the different attitudes towards the war. The Charge of The Light Brigade "The Charge of The Light Brigade", is a very dramatic poem about he elite of an army during the Crimean War in 1896. In the poem Tennyson celebrate the bravery of the six hundred British troops who went into a battle against all odds, even though they knew that they would be killed. The poem starts in the middle of the action 'Light Brigade' is written in dactylic feet (one space stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables) and this gives...

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