For The Soldier, Rupert Brooke, uses a tone of controlled patriotic fervour, and one of joy, hope and laughter, to create an atmosphere that is calm, reflective and soothing. While in Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen, uses a bitter, depressive and slightly sarcastic tone, which seems devoid of hope, using that, he has created a moody and grim atmosphere, which is completely opposite of what Rupert Brooke has done. .
The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace". While in Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen, uses diction that is descriptive, compelling, figurative and unpleasant, such as "plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning". .
The amount and type of figurative language used in The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, is also different from what is used by Wilfred Owen in Dulce Et Decorum Est.
In The Soldier, Rupert Brooke, used relatively few, but the strongest used by him was the personification of England as a mother, with the words "England bore", "her day" and "her sights and sounds". The metaphors he used, also implies some neo paganistic ideas, such as "pulse in the eternal mind". While, Wilfred Owen, in Dulce Et Decorum Est, uses many metaphors, such as "thick green light" and "under a green sea, I saw him drowning." Which is actually, him seeing someone suffering from the gas, with the green glass of the gas mask, causing him to see everything as green, including air. .
As for imagery, Rupert Brooke uses calm and peaceful images, to give the reader the image of pastoral and idyllic England, with words and phrases such as "suns of home", "washed by the rivers", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace, under an England heaven", he also gives the image of a body, with the words "hearts", "pulse" and "mind".
