Tennyson's 1856 poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" are salient examples of a text being a product of its time. ... Contrastingly, Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" was set on a regular day on the battlefields of World War I. ... " Wilfred Owen emphasises on how the bodies become warped as men break under the stress of war. ... Owen explores the reality and striking truth of the war, from seeing it first-hand. ... Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade&...

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In "Dulce et Decorum Est," Wilfred Owen utilizes gory and haunting imagery, reminiscent figurative language, and gruesome diction to unveil the unfortunate truth that mainstream propaganda wrongly glorifies the life of a soldier in combat. ... Overall, Owen is attempting to divulge the reality of troops every day, unglamorous life. ... Owen also expresses this notion through the use of simile. ... Misinformation fed to the public is divulged by Owen through his realistic depiction of war. ... Owen is exposing the brutal truth so that the mainstream is not unaware to the circumstances. ...

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It is the physical trauma that these men suffered during the war and the psychological trauma they suffered on their return back that Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon became renowned to write about; their poems are a stark contrast to that of Pope's "who's for the Game?" ... Perhaps the most famous of these poems is that of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est", a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". ... In "Disabled", Owen begins by describing the victim's present life. ... Despite this, and in contrast to "Dulce et Decorum est" wh...

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