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From our study of war poetry I have selected two poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's, 'The charge of the Light Brigade' and Wilfred Owen's, 'Dulce et decorum est'. I will compare and contrast how these.
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From our study of war poetry I have selected two poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson's, 'The charge of the Light Brigade' and Wilfred Owen's, 'Dulce et decorum est'. I will compare and contrast how these two poems and in particular the two poets, have differing attitudes towards the subject of war. Alfred, Lord Tennyson was born in 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. In 1842 Tennyson succumbed to deep depression brought on by financial worries which required him to receive medical treatment. He eventually married in 1850 to Emily Sellwood and accepted a peerage in 1883. On Tennyson's death in 1892 his remains were interred in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. Tennyson was requested to write a poem to celebrate a memorable action by a British cavalry unit in the Crimean war. However, Tennyson had never been in a theatre of conflict, let alone witness a battle involving British troops before. After...
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