The Soldier and Dulce Et Decorum Est Comparison

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The Soldier and Dulce Et Decorum Est Comparison

Similarities

  • Theme of war and death
  • First hand accounts of their experiences
  • About the First World War
  • Use of repetition 'England', 'English and 'all went lame all blind'
  • Use of alliteration 'foreign field', 'knock kneed'

Differences

  • S - patriotic poem
  • D - anti war poem
  • D - addresses propagandists
  • S - written at the beginning of the war
  • D - written near the end of the war
  • D - it is not sweet and right to die for your country 'bent double like old beggars under sacks', 'white eyes writhing in his face', 'you would not tell with such high zest'
  • S - it is sweet and right to die for your country 'a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware'
  • S - Brooke didn't see the real effects of war
  • D - Owen saw what war was really like 'he plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning', 'come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs'
  • D - use of onomatopoeia 'guttering, choking'

Overall comparison

Comments

assan1001

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exellent thanks keep it up !

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Bilal Ismail

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great

JohnFromTesco

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Good

Jane Harbord

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Very useful, thank you!