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Poem Comparison Essay by Tom Cornall The two poems, "Dulce et decorum est" and "Charge of the Light Brigade" both convey strong opinions about conflict. In Wilfred Owens case, that was the horror and gore of life in the trenches during World War One, which he saw at first hand. In contrast to this, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote about the almost childish failure of the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. However, unlike Wilfred Owen, Alfred Lord Tennyson was not actually there, but was in London, and devised the poem from an article which he read by W.H.Russell in the Sunday Times. In Stanza 1 of "Dulce et..." Wilfred Owen used a lot of metaphors and other imagery to portray the horrific, gloomy atmosphere for the rest of the poem. He begins by saying "Bent double like old beggars under-sacks" from this quote, we can see that the...

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