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Respond to a pre 1900 and a post 1900 poem critically, sensitively and in detail taking note of poetic techniques and their effect. Discuss the images of war which the poems convey and evaluate the poets' message concerning war.
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Respond to a pre 1900 and a post 1900 poem critically, sensitively and in detail taking note of poetic techniques and their effect. Discuss the images of war which the poems convey and evaluate the poets' message concerning war. Although both 'Dulce et Decorum Est´ and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade´ are about battle and the death of soldiers, they portray the experience of war in different ways. Tennyson´s poem celebrates the glory of war, despite the fact that, because of an error of judgement ('Someone had blundered´), six hundred soldiers were sent to their death. Owen´s poem, on the other hand, might almost have been written as a challenge to Tennyson´s rousing and jingoistic sentiments. He presents the horror of senseless death in the trenches and shows us how the famous line from the Roman poet Horace, 'it is sweet and becoming to die for your country´, is a...
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