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    Comparing The Charge of The Light Brigade, War and A Wife in London. Select three poems from the selection, which are concerned with different aspects of war. Write about and compare the poems in respect of the following: ¨ The views of war that the poets are expressing ¨ The tones and atmospheres of the poems ¨ The ways in which language and rhythm are used to reinforce the poets’ themes and viewpoints ¨ Any other factors considered important. The three poems that I have

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    Comparison of Charge of the Light Brigade and Green Beret The Charge of the Light Brigade is about an army of six hundred men on horseback going into war without a say on whether they want to or not. The poem is structured into six stanzas and the rhyming scheme is A,B,C,B,D,E,C,B. Someone in charge had " blunder'd " and called out orders for six hundred British Calvary to storm a full Russian battalion Suddenly they were surrounded; " Cannon to the right of them" " Cannon to the

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    The Portrayal of War in Charge of the Light Brigade and Dulce et Decorum Est Both "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson and "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen are poems about war. However, they were written in two very different contexts and about two very different wars. Charge of the Light Brigade describes a doomed cavalry charge made by British soldiers during The Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War (1854-1857). Dulce et Decorum est, on the other hand, tells

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    Comparison of Dulce et Decorum Est and Charge of the Light Brigade Compare and contrast the two poems Dulce et Decorum Est (Owen) with Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson), paying particular attention to the writers’ attitude to war. The attitudes of poets towards war have always been expressed vigorously in their poetry, each poet either condoning or condemning war, and mitigating their attitudes in whatever way possible. I aim to explore the change in the portrayal of war before

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    Elizabeth Miller Literary Studies May 8, 2017 Literary Research Paper Tennyson & Owen War Poems & Their Ideas The poems, The Charge of The Light Brigade and Dulce et Decorum Est, both deal with an idea of war. The writers both have the same viewpoint about war, but the way that they articulate those ideas on paper varies. Through literary devices in the poems, the authors show two different wars, but the same tragic outcome – death. These two poems showcase how people can have different outlooks

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    The poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” written by Alfred Tennyson is a mélange of diverse elements. At heart, it is a free verse epic designed to memorialize the bravery of the six hundred men who readily rode “into the valley of Death” under the aegis of patriotism. Tennyson uses this poem not glorify the battle itself but, rather the soldiers who were an epitome of obedience and valor in spite of the blunders made by their superiors. In the first stanza, Tennyson, with his apt use of repetition

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    The charge of the Light Brigade and Dulce Et Decorum Est The two poems that I have been studying are each about war. They both describe about the terrors of war and the suffering of each side's men and what they had to go through. The two different poets have very different views on how the war actually progressed. The first poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" is a piece of propaganda for the army; similarly for "Dulce Et Decorum Est." It was most likely that the poet in the first poem

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    The Charge Of The Light Brigade and Come up from the Fields Father are two war poems written in the mid 19th century. A Comparison Of Two War Poems ============================= 'The Charge Of The Light Brigade' and 'Come up from the Fields Father' are two war poems written in the mid 19th century. They both involve the portrayal of death for their country. Although they both tell us about death in two entirely different ways. In 1854, Mr Alfred Tennyson picked up 'The Times' newspaper

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    illustration entitled “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” the two both express their own strong feelings towards the battle. Tennyson’s feelings towards the Light Brigade is pride and was conveyed through diction, personification, and allusion. Woodville’s feelings for the subject is bravery and was shown through three literary devices in his painting. In Tennyson’s poem, he gives off the feeling of pride towards the six hundred men who were part of the charge in Light Brigade through diction, personification

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    contradict each other such as the two passages “Charge of the Light Brigade”, which is about glorifying and noble deaths in a war, and also “Dulce Et Decorum Est", one that is not so noble and proud of deaths in a war. The two passages symbolize and mean two different things. Let’s take, for instance, “Charge of the Light Brigade”, the author uses words in the passage that conveys meaning to being ready. In stanza one he says, “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns! He said: Into the valley of Death”

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