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Comment on the following statement: ‘it is sweet and honourable to die for one’s country’ Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce ET Decorum Est. The poem describes the reality of war. Its shows the pain and suffering the soldiers go through to fight for their country. Lord Tennyson was not in the Battle of Balaclava he read about it in the Times. He did not know what was happening in the battle he just used his imagination as to how he thinks war should be like. Wilfred Owen was in the First World War, he knew exactly how the men looked and felt about the war. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote the Charge of the Light Brigade. He does not show the truth of war only the nobility of the War. In this essay the poems Dulce et Decorum Est and The Charge of the Light Brigade will be analysed and discussed whether it is sweet and honourable to die for your country. Dulce et Decorum Est is a reality poem that is giving the true meaning of war, they are not gallant soldiers riding in to battle on horses they are scared tired bruised and battered soldiers. “Bent double like old beggars under sacks”. This is not an image of heroic men, their backs are hunched. These men did not go into battle with elegant posture a