Dulce Et Decorum Est And The Soldier

Dulce et decorousness est is written regarding the First World War in the hindsight of the battle of the Somme. This takes a somewhat cynical gain on strugglefare. The soldier by Rupert Brooke on the other make it takes a very strong firm feel and this shines through much then anything else.The soldier paints a picture of face serenity and whereas dulce et. portrays Owens fretfulness at the indifference of those at home who continued to propagate lies. You can see the influence of Siegfried Sassoon in this piece. The quarrel is more send out and shocking guttering, choking, drowning helps convey the grievance in the air. In the soldier the language is less deplorable and has a feel more of a love poem her sights and sounds under an English Heaven this coupled with the fact that the poem is written as a sonnet reiterates the feel of Love.both poems are based on death in Wars. How ever so Brooke paints a more glamorised and less direct picture of death if I should die, think only this of me That theres some corner of a foreign orbital cavityblest by suns of home. This evokes the idealistic stunt man of a perfect England in a Golden age, such as many believe existed immediately prior to the First World War. This does however expose the arrogance that Brooke possibly had. It places too much importance on his own sacrifices and non on the general sacrifices being make by so many, and on the loss of a way of life, which the struggle would bring out alike(p) many other First World War poets such as Edward Thomas and Charles Hamilton Sorely.Owen on the other hand almost haunts the reader using fiery vocabulary to help depict the shocking death of a soldier guttering, Choking, Drowning. Owen clearly wanted to address the people at home and suggests to them that if, in their worst nightmares, they could re-live this experience, they would non keep repeating that it is good and sweet to die for your country. He is saying that no one who has witnessed the se horrors could ever encourage anyone to take part in such a war. He had already pointed out the exhaustion of the soldiers drunk with fatigue deaf even to the hoots helping the reader to visualise the lack of awareness of the soldiers. This certainly will give the reader a much more negative take on the war contaray to the over-hyped propaganda war that those at home believe.Brooke conveys the image that was painted by the media in Britain at the time of the war and even in death, he believes he cannot remove that sense of pride from him and his passing will not be in vain if, at home in England people are, once again beaming and at peace. He feels that by his death he will have given back to England everything, and more, that it gave to him. The blessedness and security earned by his sacrifice will buy his eternal peace this heart, all barbarous shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind Owen continues his cynicalism of the war in the last write using necessarily harsh and wick ed language come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs. They fling the man into a wagon, because they retire there is no point in being gentle- he will soon be breathless anyway. The description of his face and eyes And watch the white eyes writhing in his face gives him a ghost-like quality. This verse is intended to demonstrate the realism of a violent, unnecessary death hence it builds to a crescendo of anger, before a final earnest plea to stop the lies.These two poems could be no more different. The soldier is a poem supporting the war in a way not too variant to the way the media in that time promoted it whilst Dulce Et Decorum Est is a pessimistic take on a war that was conveyed by the British media as far from the truth as possible. Owen wanted the British people to survive the truth about the war and expressed these feelings best in his poetry. Brooke in contrast went along with the glamorized image that had been portrayed by the media, which wasnt a fair reflection o n the war.