"Topic proposal poetry essay"

For my poetry essay I am going to compare "Dulce et Decorum" by Wilfred Owen and "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy. These poems both focus of death from war. They both give graphic details of war scenes that soldiers experienced. There is a negative tone that shows when comparing these two poems. It becomes quite obvious in "The Man He Killed" that the speaker was still upset about the incident. Both of the poems offer different points of view. "The Man He Killed" gives an outlook on war from the soldier who killed another human. He seemed uncertain that he did the right thing by killing the man that he easily could have became friends with. "Dulce et Decorum" gives the point of view from the fellow soldier who watched his friend get killed.