Borden displays mud as something that is terrifying and unwelcome. However, as the poem continues onto the second stanza and on, the mood becomes dark and miserable. Here, the readers can assume that this poem is positive, since the title has the term ‘song’ in it, and songs are usually a positive term. In the first stanza, she begins off with explaining the characteristics of mud, describing them as glistening and elastic, which are words that does not carry much emotions. In the poem, Song of the Mud, Borden uses mud as an analogy to war. They had died in vain, without achieving anything. This is ironic since there is nothing to glorify for the brigade. After indicating that the brigade had been annihilated, the poem ends with glorifying the brigade. In the beginning, Tennyson used ‘blundered’ to indicate that the commander had made a terrible mistake and sent the troops into the ‘valley of death’ and ‘mouths of hell’. Death, hell, blundered, honor and glory are the main words that construct the emotion of the poem carries. Tennyson manages his diction is a way that constructs a mood in his poem. By doing so, the repetition emphasizes the disastrous events and the emotions the soldiers feel. Valley of death, mouths of hell, cannon to the left were mentioned several times over Charge of the Light Brigade. Tennyson repeats certain phrases over his poem in order to show the devastating situation the soldiers are in. Therefore, even though the actual plot of the poem is gloomy and depressing, the poem carries a joyful tone. The rhythm used in Charge of the Light Brigade is often used in marching bands for celebrations and festivals. Overall, the poem follows a certain rhythm that establishes an exciting mood. However, he uses rhythm, repetition, and diction in his poem to illustrate that the charge the soldiers made was glorious and honorable. In the poem, Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson displays a certain historical tactic used in a war that killed 600 soldiers in vain. He tells her that she should love and respect his decision, and presents her with a solid statement at lines 11 and 12: “I could not love thee (Dear) so much, Lov’d I not Honour more.” This translates to “I can not love you more like I love glories of war.” He uses the word ‘love’ often in his poem to show his affection towards both war and his mistress. Lastly, Lovelace shows that he chooses war over his mistress in his last stanza. He uses alliteration in this stanza at line 6, “The first foe in the field” which emphasizes the matter he is going to chase after instead of his lover. Here, he uses the word faith to imply that the religion he worships now is the war, not the woman he left behind. In his second stanza, he shifts his focus from his woman to the foe in the battlefield, where he would “chase” them down. This builds up his argument of how fabulous war is, since he admits that he loves war more than the mistress in the poem. Words like sweet, chaste breast, a nunnery in the first stanza describes how great his mistress is. The first stanza includes diction that embellishes his lover. The poem follows the rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, and efef over the three stanzas and each stanza focus on different aspects of war thus have different tones. To show this, Lovelace uses diction, tone, and alliteration over his poem. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars supports that war is marvelous. Lovelace constantly compares war and his lover, and eventually, in the last stanza, he concludes that he admits that he loves war more than his mistress and he is willing to fly to the battlefield. He states in his first stanza “To war and arms I fly” meaning that the narrator is going to war. In the poem, To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, Lovelace shows his affection towards war, even more than his lover presented in his 3 stanza poem. Behind all the embellishment lies the ugly truth. War is nothing like what To Lucasta and The Charge of the Light Brigade describes it is. The poets of The Song of the Mud and Dulce et Decorum Est also constructed this mood by using literary devices, such as diction, metaphor, and imagery. On the other hand, The Song of the Mud and Dulce et Decorum Est takes the side of anti-war, which displayed war as a foul and dreadful action. The poets used many literary devices to establish a certain mood and tone in order to persuade the reader. Poems such as To Lucasta and The Charge of the Light Brigade would be an example of pro-war poems. In many poems during wars, poets would glorify war and the soldiers in order to convince and persuade the readers to join the army.
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