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

The Charge of the Light Brigade and Attack The Charge of the light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson andAttack by Siegfried Sassoon are cardinal very dissimilar poems. both(prenominal) ofthem are on the same topic of war but have many melodic lines in how theytreat the subject matter, war. The main difference between these twopoems is the audience that they were written for. Tennyson, as poetlaureate, was written for public reading, but Sassoons work whichshowed more emotion and feeling, was therefore more of a private poem.The poems tone and sense of humor are very different. 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, While horse and hero fell.Tennyson also tells us that they were fearless and did everythingwithout query. Theirs not to make reply. Theirs not to reas on why.In the last compose of the poem Tennyson asks all people to, Honour theLight Brigade, Noble six hundred Even in defeat Tennyson portraysthe men as heroes.In contrast Sassoon created a sinister and threatening mood. His poemcontains a mysterious haunting quality revealing the shockingbrutality of what war was really like. Instead of word picture 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 way he uses bristling to take out 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 thirteen lines.)The two poems are written from two points of view, and have verydifferent purposes. Tennyson is reflecting on an event that hadhappened ten years beforehand and an event that he himself was notinvolved him. He was 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 understandably 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 look forward to with furtive eyes and grapplingfists, flounders in the mud.