What attitudes to war and suffering are presented by the Poets in the poems you have studied?

I am going to discuss three poems on the subject or war and suffering, ‘Vitai
Lampada’, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ and ‘As the Teams Head Brass’. Each
one of these poems describe war, death and suffering in different ways, with the two
pre 1914 poems portraying war as an honourable and brave act. The post 1914 poem
describes war and suffering as chaotic and miserable, a much more melancholy tone
than the other two poems.
In ‘Vitai Lampada’, one of the pre 1914 poems, Henry Newbolt sets the scene as a group of young public school boys playing a game of cricket. One of the teams is in a desperate position in the game, with only one batsman left.

‘Ten to make and the match to win,
A bumping pitch and a blinding light,
An hour to play and the last man in.’

Also in the first stanza, Newbolt talks of winning a game of cricket against the odds, not just for personal glory but because it is necessary to ‘Play up! and play the game’. Te...