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

Compare and blood the poets attitudes to and experiences of struggle inDrummer Hodge and The soldier - How does the poets use of languageeffect the commentators experience of war?Drummer Hodge is written about the Boer war (around 1899 - 1902),which was a war amid 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 life as his body is disposedof practically, with no dignity, this gives the lector the idea thatwar has a bigger picture and the life of virtuoso boy does not matter aslong as the realm prevails They throw in Drummer Hodge, to restUncoffined - just as found this gives the chain of mountains across that the boywas buried with no dignity, no ceremony and with indifference. Fromthis the reader clearly gets a rather horrible and cold image of thewar and the room in which people were disposed of, the line alsoexpresses how much(prenominal) life is lost in a war.The next line exp resses the instruction in which he has no grave stone, just a galvanic pile of rocks over his body. I think this shows the way that in war,you die and jockey body knows were you are, so nobody can come to yourgrave to grieve you. His landmark is a kopje-crest in some ways thepoet tries to tell us that the land surrounding the boys grave hasbecome part of him and the land allow respect him and give him hisdignity. This may give the reader the thought that in war maybe thebest way out is death as you will then be eternally respected.In the last lines of the scratch stanza the poet writes about how theboy entered the war in a distant function and there is nothing familiarto him And foreign constellations west Each iniquity above his mound. The poet writes about how he was buried under a foreign sky in a strange place which was far away(p) 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 s tanza goes on to explain the way in which he wasunprepared for the war Young Hodge the Drummer Never knew - merryfrom 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