The Charge of the Light Brigade and Attack Essay -- Alfred Lord Tennys

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Attack The Charge of the elucidate Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson andAttack by Siegfried Sassoon are two very miscellaneous poems. Both ofthem are on the same topic of war barely have many contrasts in how theytreat the subject matter, war. The main disagreement between these twopoems is the audience that they were written for. Tennyson, as poetlaureate, was written for exoteric reading, but Sassoons work whichshowed more emotion and feeling, was therefore more of a private poem.The poems tone and mood are very assorted. Tennysons poem is atriumphant, victorious and celebratory poem. This is because theVictorians did not want to read about defeat, as it was not consideredhonourable, so Tennyson praises the men who died in the charge. Hewrites, Boldly they rode and well, and, darn horse and hero fell.Tennyson also tells us that they were fearless and did everythingwithout query. Theirs not to begin reply. Theirs not to reason why.In the la st verse of the poem Tennyson asks each(prenominal) commonwealth to, Honour theLight Brigade, Noble six hundred regular(a) in defeat Tennyson portraysthe men as heroes.In contrast Sassoon created a sinister and threatening mood. His poemcontains a mysterious haunting fiber revealing the shockingbrutality of what war was really like. Instead of line drawing the menwho fought as brave and fighting without question, he says they were,Masked with fear, when they had to go over the top to meet theBristling fire. It is clever the sort he uses bristling to depict thegunfire because by this he makes out that the gunfire is heavy. Healso says, Lines of grey, muttering faces, which depicts aquestioning attitude, which is a com... ...een lines. Attack has long dozen lines.)The two poems are written from two points of view, and have verydifferent purposes. Tennyson is reflecting on an in timet that hadhappened ten years beforehand and an event that he himself was notinvolved him. He wa s writing to commemorate those that had died duringthe charge. By the way he has written the poem, he seems to think thatwar was very honourable, even in defeatSassoon however had experienced war, and really knew what it was liketo be in the front line, ( unlike Tennyson). The purpose of his poemwas to tell people what war was really like. How it was frighteningand sad. He clearly and blatantly had a negative view of war, as hesays in his last line, O Jesus, make it stop and thinks of war asdishonourable and futile, And hope with concealed eyes and grapplingfists, flounders in the mud.