'Dulce Et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen, compared to 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

'Dulce Et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen, compared to 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poem 'Dulce et Decorum est', by Wilfred Owen, was a form of moral propaganda. Wilfred Owen's purpose in writing it was to convince the deluded British public that they had been lied to. He knew from first hand experience the terror, pain, horror and inhumanity of war; this made him feel disgusted and enraged at …

…to believe the pro-war propaganda. His poem has none of the vividly horrific descriptions that there are of the dying man in Owen's poem and instead talks of nobility, duty, and honour. Owen's poem is intended to scorn this belief, and does so strongly in the last stanza: 'My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.