War Poetry Alfred Tennyson and Wilfred Owen present different ideas about war in their poems, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Dulce et Decorumest". Write about these poems and their effect on you. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about the Battle of Balaclava which occurred in 1854. Tennyson wrote the poem using information from an article in The Times and recalls the bravery of the outnumbered knights who were unjustly sent into battle. “Dulce et Decorum est” was written by Wilfred Owen during the First World War. It was written to show the truth about war and to illustrate that it is not a good thing to die for your country. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" consists of six verses. The third, fourth and fifth stanzas focus on the battle itself. The main part of the battle is described in verse four and tells how the soldiers "sabered the artillerymen" and how "Cossacks and Russians staggered" describing the victory of the Light Brigade. The final stanza is a message from the poet to "honor the Brigade of Light" and not to forget what the six hundred men did. The poem has a consistent rhyme scheme all the way through with words like “blunder,” “hundred,” “thundered,” and “wondered,” or “shell,” “fell,” and “well.” Having this rhyming scheme makes the poem seem to flow more easily and gives it a more prominent structure. It emulates the pace of the battle that was over in twenty minutes. The rhythm of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" imitates the sound of horses hooves using the triple like "half a league, half a league, half a league on" the sound of the galloping horses continues when the poet uses words like "on the fly and thundered ". Tennyson draws attention to the fact that The Battle of Balaclava was one of the greatest military blunders ever made in his poetry by writing "Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell" demonstrating that sending the Light Brigade into battle was wrong and that almost none of them would return. In line two the poet informs the reader that the soldiers knew a mistake had been made but still followed orders. The lines “To them not to answer, to them not to explain why, to them but to do and die” show that the soldiers could not refuse to go into battle, even if they knew that “someone had made a mistake”, they should not do nothing but go into battle. fight and die.Tennyson shows admiration for the Light Brigade in his poem.