Comparing The Soldier And Dulce Et Decorum Est

World War I, likely the most repulsive of present day wars, enlivened a few of the most lovely and incredible poetry of the 20th century. ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est ‘ by Wilfred Owen, both were written during world war one. Rupert Brooke was a knowledgeable English man who experienced the energy of the entire nation when the war began. He joined the military and did battle. In any case, he didn’t get the opportunity to battle on the grounds that during the adventure to the front he passed on from mosquito poison. The life of Wilfred Owen was altogether different from Rupert Brooke’s. Owen was a white-collar class English man who didn’t have the training of Brooke. He likewise joined the military yet he did experience the terrible truth of war. Seven days before the armistice was at last signed, he was murdered in the field. Despite the fact that both pomes were written during a similar period, the two men are completely different. They differentiate in substance, language, structure, tune, and message. ‘The soldier’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ are about soldiers giving up their lives for their country. Nevertheless, they have altogether different meanings. Owen words depict us the pitiless passing of a soldier during a gas assault and the guilt he feels in the wake of seeing his friend’s horrid death. On the other hand, Brooke inform us concerning who his demise and the passing of numerous English soldiers will advance the earth of ‘ foreign fields’ as he portrays them. Brook’s pome is full of patriotism, for instance ‘If I should die think only this of me that there’s some corner of a foreigner field that is forever England’. Brooke pome tells about the good of dyeing in war and for your country and Owen depicts the picture of horrid passing in the field during the war. This distinction is for the most part because of what poets experience. It is plausible that if Brooke had experience war his writings could have change of perspective.

The structure and the language the two pomes have are practically nothing in common besides the fact of war. One similarity is the consistency of their rhyme plot. The two pomes have a normal rhyme plot, this is because the language Owen’s utilization in the pomes is extremely casual and informal. For instance, when he composed ‘Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of disappointment shells that drop behind’. The pome doesn’t have a conventional stanza spread out, the main stanza has eight refrains and the third just two sections. By not utilizing ‘ceremonial’ words also, not having formal stanza spread out, Owen attempt to point us again that the war isn’t rich or has formal structure. Brooke pome is very unique, his language and the structure of the sonnet is very formal. This proposes his perspective of war is formal what’s more, by certain methods without misery. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ is full with analogies and metaphors, for instance, ‘ Bent double like old beggars, under sacks/ knock-kneed, coughing like hags’ or ‘ his hanging face, like devil’s sick of sin’ the utilization of the similes and metaphors makes a solid picture for the reader Owen needed this, so you can envision and feel the pain of the soldiers. ‘The soldier’ didn’t utilize comparisons or metaphors. The sonnet doesn’t make solid pictures as ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, it is increasingly quiet and I think less amazing. The tune in ‘The Soldier’ is extremely grave and reverential of Britain during the whole pome. Interestingly the Dulce et Decorum Est’s tune is first extremely disillusioned and unbiased. As though the soldiers were doing an everyday practice of killing and returning and yet is still very heart-broken.

In the second stanza, the tune ends up sensational and frantic, Owen composed ‘ Gas! Gas! Quick boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling but someone still was yelling’ You can feel how speaker is frantic also, feels helpless. The last stanza the poet’s tune is of hate for every one of the individuals who make young men battle in vain. The two pomes give a very different message. Brooke attempt to tell us that dying for the country is the proper thing to do and that if you died during the war you will enrich other parts of the world. It is a patriotic line and it helps to comprehend what English individuals thought of the war before it began. Owen thought differently, he accepts that the war was the most noticeably terrible thing you could live in and told us that the war wasn’t the best possible activity on the grounds that the main outcome of it was the demise of numerous young men. This pome shows us what individuals thought of the war when they lived in it.