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Explore the portrayal of war in Lord Byron’s ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’, Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of The Light Brigade’.
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Explore the portrayal of war in Lord Byron's 'The Destruction of Sennacherib', Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' and Tennyson's 'The Charge of The Light Brigade'. We have studied three poems on the subject of different views of war. 'The Destruction of Sennacherib' and 'The Charge of the Light brigade' were written pre 1914 whereas 'Dulce Et Decorum Est was written post 1914'. Dulce et decorum est, was written by Wilfred Owen, and is meant to portray the harshness of the first world war. This was mainly to combat writers such as Jesse Pope, who portrayed the war as "a game". Lord Byron's the destruction of Sennacherib, was written pre 1914, and he used secondary evidence (2nd book of chronicles chapter 32 in the Old Testament) to structure his poem. Most of his poems were based on religious stories however, it is strange that he should do this, when he lived...
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