The Views of Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen on War Essay -- Poets War

The Views of Rupert Brooke and WilMy selected poems are The Soldier by Rupert Brooke and Dulce etDecorum est by Wilfred Owen. Both war poems but conveying their contrastive pictures and presenting their views of war in radicallydifferent ways.The poets bring polarized views of war with Rupert Brooke writing hispoem in a romanticized and patriotic way referring to the possibilityof death as a noble cause, for England the land that gave him life.This is at odds to how Wilfred Owen views the reality and horror ofwar.The poets choice of title Dulce et Decorum est which translatedmeans It is lovely and honourable to die for your country which inits self is irony, misleads you to think that the poem is dismissal to be rough how blissful it is to die for your country and how proud youshould be, when the reality is so different.The title The Soldier is also very misleading. The title suggestsits going to be about a solider at war and facing death when in factits about the glorification an d pride or the author Brookes at thethought of suffice his country.Dulce et decorousness est is a poem about Soldiers in 1st world war. Thepoet Wilfred Owen has created and described images in great detail. Hecreates the horrific images of war and the soldiers pain.The poem begins,Bent double. akin old beggars under sacksWhich instantly has great impact on my feelings and creates the imageof the young soldiers hunched backed in pain and agony carryingenormous packs, travel slowly and haggard like old women. The painthat the soldiers are feeling is shownKnock-kneed, coughing like old hags, we cursed through and through sludgeimplying that the soldiers were cold and afraid and feeling very ill... ...ormat to write a war poem in. It is written inthe form of a sonnet because it is very romanticised poeme.g. Gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roamDulce et decorum est was my favourite poem of the two, its a veryemotional poem and shows the harsh realities of war rather than a dreamy, imaginative poet writing about his fairy write up life style. Alsoit seems to me that as Rupert Brookes didnt fight in the war and losthis life to a measly mosquito bite, his poem is party deceptive anduntruthful.I have come to the conclusion that both poets have polarized view onwar.Wilfred Owen believed that war was a useless thing, risking younglives and seeing the pain that many of the men went through and RupertBrookes saw war as a noble act. Brilliant and consequential thingrisking your life to show you are faithful towards your country.