War PoetryAlfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen present different ideas about war in their poems “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and “Dulce et Decorumest”. Write about these poems and their effects on you. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about the Battle of Balaclava which took place in 1854. Tennyson wrote the poem using information from an article in The Times and he remembered the bravery of the riders, outnumbered, wrongly sent into battle. “Dulce et Decorum est” was written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War. It was written to show the truth about war and to illustrate that it is not a good thing to die for your country. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” has six lines. The third, fourth and fifth stanzas focus on the battle itself. The main part of the battle is described in verse four and tells how the soldiers "slashed the artillerymen" and how "the Cossacks and the Russians staggered", describing the victory of the Light Brigade. The final stanza is a message from the poet to “honor the Light Brigade” and not forget what the six hundred men did. The poem has a consistent rhyme pattern throughout with words like "blundered", "hundred", "thundered" and "I wondered" or "shell", "fell" and "well". Having this rhyme pattern throughout makes the poem seem to flow more smoothly and gives it a more prominent structure. It imitates the rhythm of the battle which ended in twenty minutes. The rhythm of “The Charge of the Light Brigade” imitates the sound of horses. hooves using triplings such as "half a league, half a league, half a league forward", the sound of galloping horses continues when the poet uses words like "stolen and thundered". Tennyson draws attention to the fact that the Battle of Balaclava was one of the greatest military mistakes ever made in his poem by writing "In the jaws of death, in the mouth of hell" showing that sending the Light Brigade in combat was a mistake and that almost none of them would return. In verse two, the poet informs the reader that the soldiers knew a mistake had been made but they still followed orders. The lines "It's theirs not to answer, theirs not to reason, theirs but to act and die" show that soldiers could not refuse to go into battle, even if they knew that "someone one had made a mistake,” all they had to do was go into battle. fight and die. Tennyson shows his admiration for the Light Brigade in his poem.