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Wilfred Owen (poet)
Fought in WW1 but was killed one week before the war ended
believed the church was not doing enough
Wrote about his experiences of war in poetry
joned the British army in 1915
Poems to compare
Charge of the Light Brigade
Similarities
Both poets are critical of the leaders- COTLB telling the reader to 'honour the light brigade' and not the leaders and Exposure 'worried by silence' like they have been left alone in the silence
Both poets use repetition to show the futility and repetitiveness of war- COTLB repetition of 'cannon' and 'six hundred' and Exposure repetition of 'nothing happens
Differences
Tennyson (COTLB) was poet Laureate at the time meaning he could not criticise the government so instead he tells the reader to 'honour' the people who have died
Tennyson (COTLB) criticises the rash decision making of people in charge 'someone had blundered' whereas Owen (exposure) is tired of waiting in the trenches 'like a dull rumor of some other war', it feels distant
Bayonet Charge
Similarities
Both soldiers have been fooled by the propaganda as war is not what they expected- BC repetition of 'what are we doing here?' and Exposure 'a rifle as numb as a smashed arm
Both poets experience the psychological effects of war- BC 'patriotic tear' he becomes emotional due to the loss of his patriotism due to the war not being what he was sold , Exposure 'our brains ache' creates a physical reaction towards the warfare
Differences
In exposure the soldiers are tired of waiting for something to happen 'nothing happens' but in BC the soldier is reluctant to fight 'he almost stopped'
Key Quotes
"the merciless iced winds that knive us"
Sinister tone
Violent connotations
Creates a sense of fear for the reader
repetition of "dying"
blunt because they all know it is true
repetition- to highlight the inevitable end
"what are we doing here?"
Rhetorical question
questioning his motivation to fight
Key themes/ information
Boredom
soldiers spend a long time waiting
shows the futility of war
Soldiers are forgotten
the leaders have left them there and gone home- the soldiers are significant
Suffering
they are mentally and physically drained
Structure/ from
Cyclical structure
ends with 'but nothing happens' at the start and at the end
Ellipses
emphasises the soldiers waiting in boredom
slows the pace of the poem- prolongs the suffering
Caesura
"slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires"
The colon shows the barrier between the two places