![]() From the first stanza onwards, nothing is written in a personal way. In the poem it is a very cleansed view that is portrayed to us about the events and a very euphemistic style is used. Tennyson’s attitude to war was very much the overall view at the time that war was grand and glorious, that it was full of brilliance and noblility not at all realistic, as we now know. This made Tennyson want to pay his respects to the men and so through his poem he did so. ![]() Russell gave the impression that the battle was very grand and the men were very noble. Tennyson wrote the poem after reading a report of the battle, which was featured in The Times on 14 November 1854. The attack was ridiculous and caused a great loss of life in the attacking forces. In the battle the “600” men rode into a valley against cannon fire from both sides and the end of the valley and then after reaching the end had to turn back and retrace the exact route they had just taken due to the orders they were given. The ‘Light Brigade’ was a brigade solely of soldiers on horseback with no armoury except their sabres and small guns. The attack was a failure, due simply to the incompetence of the officers in charge and the order they gave. “The Charge of the Light Brigade” is about an attack on enemy fortifications through a valley. Tennyson wrote “Charge of the Light Brigade” after reading a report in the newspapers Wilfred Owen, however, was a serving officer at the front. These two poets have looked at the warfare in very different ways partly due to the warfare itself, and partly to do with what they actually knew. World War I was a revolutionary new type of warfare and the horrors that occurred were unimaginable. The Crimean War was a time when military blunder occurred frequently, and that is what this poem is about. ![]() Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote “Charge of the Light Brigade” during the Crimean War “Dulce et Decorum est”, however, was written during the Great War, World War I. Through this essay I intend to look at the different attitudes to war, and how they have changed through time. Explore the attitudes to war in Alfred Tennyson’s “Charge of the Light Brigade”Īnd Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum est” ![]()
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