Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and Wilfred Owen's "Dolce Et Decorum Est" are two great war poems. I really do like them. But why, why, why did I choose to write and analysis of the two - and how they "respond FORMALLY to the emotional stress linked with war"? Apparently I have not paid attention in the lectures. How does a poem respond formally to emotional stress?

Gawd.