Comparison of Poetry - page 2
Keywords: english, gcse poetry
By Sammo2k9 on 23/04/2010
Level: GCSE Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Page Number: 2 of 5 pages: 1 2 3 4 5
going: ''Into the jaws of death'' he says this like they are walking into there own grimy, sad and slow death, into there own pit of doom, no way out and never to be seen again. This is said to make people think about what the war is really like and it describes it very well as to basically say you signed up to the army to die as only the few survived. Tennyson had said all the way through the poem rode the six hundred this happens to all change at the end of the poem when he says: ''Not the six hundred'' Now that most the men have died in the way he has made it clear that near the end he had to mention that not all the six hundred men had gone home as most of them had died in the horrific war. He uses short but snappy and eye catching words to make you really think about what has happened, all those 600 men at the beginning of the poem went off the war then not the six hundred came back, Tennyson also says at the end of the poem: ''The noble six hundred'' He is giving them credit for what they been through for the torture, pain and agony those men have been through. For when they get home there was no celebration for such a few amount of people that survived, As everyone saw that there was not much point to celebrate for about half a dozen people that actually returned back home after all they have been through.
Owens poem has a completely different view to war he starts by setting the scene of has poem by describing the soldiers feelings and thoughts that ran through there head. He's poem ''dulcet et decorum est.'' was written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen. ''Bent double, like old beggars under sacks''. He uses the word beggar to explain that the soldiers have no proper home or where to go and they are rationed with food and hardly any water to drink. Beggars live on the street where as these live in dirty trenches with diseases of all sorts. ‘‘Coughing like hags'', he says this to describe how bad it was to be living in the trenches and the conditions they had to put up with, this caused them to have coughs, colds and different types of
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