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What are two poems that handle a single theme very differently!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Composed upon Westminster bridge - Wordsworth and William Blake "London"
Or -the differnt views of War, soldiering and patriotism in Wilfred Owens "Dulce Et Decorum" and John McCrae's " In Flanders Field"

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
September 3, 1802
by William Wordsworth



Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air!.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

"London"
(From 'songs of innocence and experience')

I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow!.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe!.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every black'ning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls
But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse


DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge!.
Men marched asleep!. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod!. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind!.

Gas!7 Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime !. !. !.
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning!.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning!.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori!.

In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below!.

We are the Dead!. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields!.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high!.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep,
though poppies grow
In Flanders fields!.Www@QuestionHome@Com