Comparison between "The Soldier" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
(as Discussed in Dr. Khalid Al-Blushi's Lecture in SQU)
It's just another day in the battlefields of WW1. Both
poems share the idea of representing the feelings of soldiers in the
battlefields, as both poets had participated in this war and experienced the
feeling there. Although both poems present the same topic, each poet looks at war
from a different angel through his own experience. Brooke in his poem "the
Soldier " shows that the poem is written pre-war because it indicates the
bright side of war as he keeps idealizing the war and glorifying it. However,
Owen in his poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is more of a realistic poem
that represents the dark side of war and the hardiness that soldiers go through
for the sake of their country. The following will illustrate the different
views of war of the two poets shortly as discussed in Dr. Khalid's lecture in SQU.
In the first poem "the Soldier " by Rupert Brooke we see the bright side of war. The poem focuses on the point of appropriating every foreign land to be "forever England" if any English soldier dies on that land. He idealize the land that a British man will die on as he uses the word "dust" to show the quality of the ashes of a dead British solider. He keeps glorifying these lands by saying that England is buried in this earth.
In the other poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen it is completely the opposite. The poem represents the dark side of the war, it shows the misery, harshness and suffer that soldiers go through. The poet at the begging used an ironic title to mock those who glorify and idealize war. On purpose, the title is written in Latin as it is dignifying war yet the poem itself shows the dehumanization of war. Therefore, the poet gives detailed images from the battlefield that shows the real situation in wars. At the beginning he describes the soldiers, he says that they look like old beggars and old women which indicates that these soldiers don't have any dignity in wars and gives a sense of being frail. Then, these soldiers "marched asleep", it shows the mental and physical condition of these soldiers. It also gives an idea of discipline, where it shows the way that soldiers supposed to walk.
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