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been, and stSince before man could begin to remember, war has been an omnipresent course of action as conflict has ill is, wide spread throughout the world. War is seen by some as a grim evil, while others perceive it to be a brave and glorious feat. These conflicting views have been the themes behind many works of literature, especially many works of poetry. In these poems the poets try to convey their beliefs of war using many different literary elements, such as imagery and tone. In the poems “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Lord Alfred Tennyson, two contradicting and different view towards war are portrayed through the authors’ uses of imagery and tonepoem’s message by showing that the speaker may be trusted to be knowledgeable about the subject at hand. The poem would be far less effective had the speaker not personally experienced the vicious and cruel world war provides. Another effective element of the rhetorical situation is that the audience addressed in the poem is the person who would not tell with such high zest/ To children ardent for some desperate glory/ The old lie (25-27) if he himself had been to war. The speaker has been robbed by the deceitful notion of the sweetness of war; childhood and innocence are no longer fathomable. Essentially, the poem becomes an accusation and the reader, like a bell, can clearly hear bitterness in the speaker's voice for having been deceived so greatly. Owen uses paradoxical sensory imagery to communicate his early illusions of war's heroic glory soon dissolving into a hellish reality. The speaker in the poem must distance himself from the pain and suffering before his eyes, and so he turns away from the haunting flares (3).
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