Comparing Dulce et decorum est and the charge of the light Brigade

Although both 'Dulce et Decorum Est´ and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade´ are about battle and the of soldiers, they portray the experience of war in different ways. Tennyson´s poem celebrates the glory of war, despite the fact that, because of an error of judgement ('Someone had blundered´), six hundred soldiers were sent to their . Owen´s poem, …

…any more. In the Preface to his poems, published after his , Owen wrote, 'All a poet can do today is warn. That is why true poets must be truthful´. This why he criticizes 'the high zest´ that some people have for 'the old Lie´ of the glory of war, and why I think that 'Dulce´ is the more powerful poem of the two.