Comparing Dulce et decorum est and the charge of the light Brigade
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...>Wilfred Owen in his poem is asking us to question all the certainties that Tennyson is celebrating. The theme of 'Dulce´ is that war and dying for one´s country are not at all not glorious. This message is echoed throughout the poem from the first stanza to the last line. In the opening stanza you get a very different image of the soldiers from what you might expect from the title. One thinks of soldiers as smart, proud, marching, and fighting, but Owen´s picture is based on his personal experience of the battlefield. There is nothing romantic about Owen´s soldiers. They are 'Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge´
Owen presents the reader with details of what people looked like and how they felt. 'Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod.´ The men are not really marching, or if they are it is a death march. These men are so ...
