War Poetry :: English Literature

War rimeAlfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen pre displace different ideas about war intheir poems, The recoil of the ignitor brigade and Dulce et Decorumest. Write about these poems and their effect on you.The Charge of the Light Brigade was written by Alfred, LordTennyson, about The employment of Balaclava which took place in 1854.Tennyson wrote the poem using information from an denomination in The Timesand it remembers the bravery of the outnumbered cavalry men who werewrongly sent into contend.Dulce et Decorum est was written by Wilfred Owen during the FirstWorld War. It was written to depict the truth about war and toillustrate that it is not a trusty thing to die for your country.The Charge of the Light Brigade has six verses. The third, quaternaryand fifth stanzas concentrate on the bout itself. The main part ofthe action is depicted in verse four and tells how the soldiers weresabring the gunners and how Cossack and Russian reeled portrayingthe conquest of the Light B rigade. The final stanza is a message fromthe poet to honour the Light Brigade and not to forget what the sixhundred men did.The poem has a constant rime pattern all the way through with deliverylike blundered, hundred, thundered and wondered or shell,fell and well. Having this rhyming pattern throughout makes thepoem seem to flow more substantially and gives it a more prominent structure.It emulates the pace of the battle which was over in twenty minutes.The rhythm of The Charge of the Light Brigade mimics the sound ofhorses hooves by using tripling such as fractional a league, half aleague, half a league onward the sound of galloping horses is keep when the poet uses words like volleyed and thundered.Tennyson draws attention to the fact that The Battle of Balaclava was iodin of the biggest military blunders ever made in his poem by composeInto the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell showing that to sendthe Light Brigade into battle was wrong and that hardly any of themwould return.In verse two the poet informs the ratifier that the soldiers knew that amistake had been made but followed the orders anyway. The linesTheirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to doand die show that the soldiers could not disapprove to go into battle,even if they knew someone had blundered, all they had to do was gointo battle and die.Tennyson shows admiration for the Light Brigade in his poem.