Vitai Lamepada Dulce Et Decorum Est Analysis

The speakers in Vitai Lampada and Dulce et Decorum Est see different gains from war. In Vitai Lampada the first stanza the playing of cricket is a foreshadowing of a battlefield and when “Play up! play up! and play the game!” is used at the end(146). It signifies how the soldiers need to carry on to impress the captain or country at war for the title of bravery. In Dulce et Decorum Est the speaker sees the bravery of war as a futile act when he clearly describes the agonizing physical and mental pain such as dying from choking on your own blood (147). Clearly, dying of such kind is neither brave nor honorable but melancholy.

The unknown speaker in Vital Lampada is trying to recruit young people to go at war and fight back but Dulce et Decorum Est is apprises on the idea of sacrificing the youth. In the last verse the speaker of Vital Lampada makes it clear that he only cares about pride and continuing the war when he states if the leader falls down it is one's duty to pick up the power and continue the war (146). The soldier in Dulce et Decorum Est addresses against recruiting young people because from seeing and experiencing terrors on the battlefield he foreseen no glory in sacrificing a generation for a war. ________

The speaker in Vital Lampada is clearly encouraging blind patriotism while the speaker in Dulce et Decorum Est warns against blind patriotism.

Throughout the whole poem the speaker is encouraging this “patriotism” by mentioning how great it is to fight for “your England and stand up for it” without mentioning the reason why soldiers should fight at war they are brainwashing people into going to battle (). At the end of the poem of Dulce et Decorum Est the speaker is directly addressing the people who declared war and encouraging war, hinting the propaganda of blind patriotism and the false details on war. Blind patriotism hinder the truth in a country and encourages ignorance in

people.

A speaker in a poem sets the tone of the story. Careful choice of words play an enormous part to poem telling. Vitai Lampada and Dulce Et Decorum Est speakers clearly portray war from different angles as well as how they see different aspects of honour,blind patriotism and war recruitments. Going to war puts a strain in relationships, destroy mental and physical health soldiers. Idolizing the idea of war or encouraging war never solves problems instead it leads to a fall down of a country therefore it should be encouraged.