Compare and contrast the poets attitudes to and experiences of war in :: English Literature

comparison and contrast the poets attitudes to and experiences of struggle inDrummer Hodge and The sol breakr - How does the poets use of language nitty-gritty the readers perception of war?Drummer Hodge is written about the Boer war (around 1899 - 1902),which was a war between the British and the Boers. The feature of thepoem is a Wessex drummer boy who was killed in this war.The poem starts with the end of the boys action as his body is disposedof practically, with no dignity, this gives the reader the idea thatwar has a bigger picture and the life of one boy does not matter aslong as the country prevails They throw in Drummer Hodge, to restUncoffined - just as establish this gives the take to across that the boywas buried with no dignity, no service and with indifference. Fromthis the reader clearly gets a rather horrible and cold image of thewar and the way in which people were disposed of, the cable television service as well asexpresses how much life is lost in a war.T he next line expresses the way in which he has no heavy stone, just apile of rocks over his body. I think this shows the way that in war,you die and retire body knows were you are, so nobody can come to yourgrave to mourn you. His shoot downmark is a kopje-crest in some ways thepoet tries to carve up us that the land surrounding the boys grave hasbecome part of him and the land will respect him and give him hisdignity. This may give the reader the theory that in war maybe thebest way out is finis as you will then be eternally respected.In the die lines of the first stanza the poet writes about how theboy entered the war in a irrelevant place and there is nothing familiarto him And foreign constellations west each(prenominal) night above his mound. The poet writes about how he was buried under a foreign sky in a strange place which was faraway away from his home. This gives the reader the impression that Drummer Hodge is more of a memory as he died so far away from his home .The second stanza goes on to apologise the way in which he wasunprepared for the war Young Hodge the Drummer neer knew - Freshfrom his wessex home. The poet has written about how the young boydid not know what he had let himself in for, the young boy did not