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Differences And Diction In Borden And Owen's Poetry

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Comparative Essay How can different perceptions about one topic be expressed in poetry? The main theme that the two sets of poems convey is war, but it’s expressed in different point of views through the use of diction that builds tone. The tones of these poems play a big role in conveying the differences between the different eras that these poems are written in, and shows how societies have changed from the Victorian era till the time of World War I. The diction and tone in Borden and Owen’s poems is so much different than the diction and tone in Lovelace and Tennyson’s poems due to different perspectives and point of views. In all four poems the main idea is war, but each set conveys a perspective of war, a positive perspective …show more content…

In Richard Lovelace’s To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, although the poem is written to say farewell to the mistress because the speaker is going to sacrifice himself and is going to war, it is playful and romantic. This poem mainly focuses on how romantic it is for someone to go fight in a war. In Alfred Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade, the one is set to be serious and respectful. The poem is about how soldiers who went into battle should be honored for their doing, and that war places soldiers under extreme stress and pressure. The poem 's diction keeps emphasizing on death and the horrors of it which is intense. The era that this poem was written in influenced the tone because at that time no matter if the battle is won or lost the soldiers who sacrificed themselves should be honored no matter what, and should be acknowledged. In Mary Borden’s The Song of The Mud, the tone is sarcastic and ironic but still gruesome about war and going into the wars, the title of this poem is a great example of how ironic Mary is about war; in this title the reader would infer “song” is joyful and positive but then “mud” is negative and unpleasant. She believes that wars strip soldiers of their value and that no human being should experience the horrors of

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The author sets the tone as reverent, the poem memorializes the battle and the heroic men who sacrificed their lives. The lines, “Into the valley of death / Rode the six hundred,” show the mistake someone made when leading the noble soldiers into a surrounded valley, but this mistake led to the soldiers pursuing victory instead of retreating The line, “Forward the Light Brigade!” shows them not shying away revealing their bravery. At the end of the poem, the lines, “When can their glory fade? /

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As a whole, the poem depicts the disillusionment of the speaker through the litany of questions within the poem, placing ambiguity in the outcome of the war and further reinforcing how war has no true winner. This view aligns with Tim O’Brien’s novel “The Things They Carried”, in which the protagonist describes war as “just the endless march, village to village, without purpose, nothing won or lost” (O’Brien 14).

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