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 2 very dissimilar poems. two ofthem are on the same topic of warfare exclusively get many contrasts 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 reclusive poem.The poems tone and mood are very different. Tennysons poem is atriumphant, rejoicing and celebratory poem. This is because theVictorians did non want to read about defeat, as it was non consideredhonourable, so Tennyson praises the hands who died in the charge. Hewrites, Boldly they rode and well, and, While ply and hero fell.Tennyson withal tells us that they were fearless and did everythingwithout query. Theirs not to fare reply. Theirs not to reason why.In the last verse of the poem Tennyson asks all hoi polloi to, Honour theLight Brigade, Noble six hundred Even in defeat Tennyson portraysthe men as heroes.In contrast Sassoon created a dreary and threatening mood. His poemcontains a mysterious haunting quality disclosure the shockingbrutality of what war was really like. Instead of portraying the menwho fought as brave and fighting without question, he says they were,Masked with fear, when they had to go oer the top to meet theBristling fire. It is clever the way he uses bristling to indicate 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 th ose 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 ostracize view of war, as hesays in his last line, O Jesus, make it stop and thinks of war asdishonourable and futile, And hope with furtive look and grapplingfists, flounders in the mud.