POEMS

Comparison of Poems

Comparison of Poems

Introduction

This paper intends to explore and compare the three poems that are Dulce et Decorum Est, Icarus Allsorts, and The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Discussion

Dulce et Decorum Est

Wilfred Owen wrote his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” on World War I. The purpose of this poem was to object against idea, which triggers war.

In the first lines of the poem, he intensely demonstrates the price of trench warfare. However, soldiers were prepared with the masks of respirators, still majority of the soldiers died due to such attacks. Owen also describes the odorless and colorless gas and ...