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    In my presentation I will be comparing two poems about war Dulce Et Decorum Est and The Charge Of The Light Brigade.I will be answering the question of how the poets have explored different perspectives on the some topic in their respective texts. In my presentation I will be analising the techniques the poets used and then comparing differences and similarities. a “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” are both war poems written through the eyes of two different poets Alfred

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    The use of imagery in Dulce et Decorum Est In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est‚ Owen uses a range of imagery to convey his experiences and views of the war. With the use of imagery he gives a realistic view of the war in a grotesque manner. This is due to the fact that he wanted to fight the views of the patriotic society of the time as they did not have a realistic view of the war. In the first stanza Owen uses imagery to portray the cruel and harsh conditions the soldiers had to fight through. Owen

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    Is dying for one’s country a sweet and right thing? Many people will fight both ways for that statement. In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen describes his point of view in a truthful and painful way. His captivating description of the war pulls the reader on a journey of discovering Owen’s true feelings: anger and resentment. Owen’s poem shows his impression of war using devices such as similes‚ imagery‚ and tone. Similes in this poem create an effective view on Owen’s impression

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    on‚ yet pretended that they did know. Wilfred Owen’s poem is very significant in the way that the poem shows what war is really like. Owen’s poem quickly became my favorite poem ever written. Therefore‚ I recommend that you keep Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” because he uses imagery and alliteration to effectively relay that war is cruel‚ and war is lied about. Through effective visual imagery‚ Owen shows the harsh reality of the war. Owen describes the soldiers as “bent double like old beggars

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    WWI soldier and the effects it had on the men. Wilfred Owen wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum Est as a soldier during the war. Similarly‚ this poem focused on describing a scene of tired‚ weary soldiers experiencing one of their comrades dying. Both All Quiet on the Western Front and Dulce et Decorum Est focus on showing the horrors of war‚ challenging the idea that war is heroic and beautiful.

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    Compare and Contrast Tennyson’s Charge Of The Light Brigade with Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est War and poetry have been linked for hundreds of years. The function of poetry in war is to aid the memory and convey details of war. Over the centuries it became a way in which people could communicate not only stories but also ideas and emotions in an imaginative and expressive way. One characteristic of the link between poetry and war has remained: Throughout the history of war‚ poems have provided a

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    Jude Campbell 8H 18/12/12 English assessment-Poem Comparison In this essay I will be comparing the two poems: ‘who’s for the game?’ by Jessie Pope and ‘dulce et decorum est.’ by Wilfred Owen. These to poems I think are quite different as Wilfred Owen’s poem is a direct response and attack on Jessie Pope and her poem. As an author of poems‚ Jessie Pope is pro-war‚ often encouraging young men to fight and using ‘white feather poems’ –poems that shame people into going- to encourage people to fight

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    The war poetry I am going to compare was written by Wilfred Owen and Thomas Hardy. Wilfred Owen was born in Wales in 1893. He wrote poetry as a teenager and at the age of 20 he began teaching English in France as an assistance teacher. 2 years later he joined the Manchester regiment and fought in World War 1 and 3 years later in 1918 he died near the Belgian border whilst taking his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. Therefore we know his writing shows his personal experiences.rdy was born in 1840

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    The way the soldier feels while seeing his friend’s death‚ makes him (and probably his mates) feel that dying for their country‚ and seeing others die‚ isn’t all that honourable. The second aspect of the poem that needs to be looked at is the atmosphere that the writer calls up. This atmosphere can be described as a dynamic one. It goes from the gray and darker mood to a fast-paced one‚ while ending in the depressing situation of a friend’s death. The gray and dark atmosphere is found in the way

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    glorious and honourable as it is always portrayed as. Even the title‚ The ’send-off’ could mean two things. Firstly‚ it could mean that the soldiers were being sent off to war. However‚ it could also mean that the soldiers were being "sent off" to their deaths. This emphasizes the fact that war actually is not what it is portrayed to be. It is not glorious and honourable to fight in war but the people and soldiers going through it suffer greatly and most do not survive. Similarly‚ “The Man He Killed” also

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