The Charge Of The Light Brigade and Come up from the Fields Father Essa

The Charge Of The Light Brigade and Come up from the Fields Father are twain struggle poems written in the mid 19th century.A Comparison Of Two War Poems=============================The Charge Of The Light Brigade and Come up from the Fields Fatherare two war poems written in the mid 19th century. They both involvethe portrayal of death for their country. Although they both tell usabout death in two entirely different ways.In 1854, Mr Alfred Tennyson picked up The Times newspaper and read areport written by W .H. Russell on the Crimean war. After reading thereport, Alfred, wrote a very quick poem about the happenings. Thispoem was to become very famous and well known for centuries to come.In comparison, Walt Whitman, the author of Come up from the FieldsFather was a famous American author he worked as a wound dresser inthe American civil war, tending battle victims in uninstructed camphospitals. Whitman writes his poem very imaginatively about theeffects of war on a farming famil y. This gives the poems a verydifferent feel and a change in style,...