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        So we will study two documents: the first one is a poem of Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of the most famous British poets of the Victorian era, entitled The Charge of the Light Brigade written in 1854. The poem is about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War. He was the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom at the time of the writing of the poem. The second text is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway named The Sun Also Rises.  The story is told by a World War I veteran who has a particular war wound and who has to live with. The notion “the writer in his century” has a link with these texts because Ernest Hemingway in 1918 incorporates Italian Red Cross where he joins the front. Over there, hurt by a machine gun he joins the hospital of Milan so his text gets closer to his life and is in a way an autobiography even if quite a lot of things were invented. As for Alfred Lord Tennyson, he wrote his poem during the Battle of Balaclava in 1854 in the Crimean War after having read an article in a newspaper, so we can say that he wrote this poem at the same time as the production of this battle.
Thus, we shall wonder how the war is broached in both documents ? First of all we shall speak about the vision of the war and to finish we shall study the representation of the soldiers.


I) The vision of the war
II) The representation of the soldiers.


I-
- In The Charge of The Light Brigade, we have an ambiguous vision of the war, battlefield is described as a living hell, we have a rather apocalyptic vision of the battle.
-The rhythm of the poem imitates the sounds of the battle as we can see when the poet said “shot and shell” however this vision is positive because we have a heroic and impressive description of the battle, like an amazing show.
- The poet depicts us the fighting with sentences such as “sabres bare” or “Flash’d as they turn’d in air” He makes us imagine that there’s many shuts in air and then the scene looks like a movie.
-With "into the valley of Death" Tennyson works in resonance with "the valley of the shadow of Death" from Psalm 23 Tennyson's Crimea does not offer the abstract tranquil death of the psalm but is instead predatory and menacing: "into the jaws of Death" and "into the mouth of Hell". The alliterative "Storm'd at with shot and shell" echoes the whistling of balls as the cavalry charge through it.
-In The Sun Also Rises we speak to us about a soldier who has a war wound. The text is focused on this wound which is considered as a joke because it’s particular: the soldier lost his genitals. And the worst is that he lost them during an unimportant battlefield.
- The war is not glorified, it is seen as a joke while it was horrible, people were sick, there were many deaths.

Thus, we have two opposite visions of the war: one in which we describe it to us as something spectacular and another one where we speak to us about it as a simple joke.
In a second part we could speak about the representation of the soldiers.



II-
First of all we can observe the praise of the soldiers in each of these texts:
Indeed,
- Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem pays tribute to the soldiers, he wants that they stay in memories.
- He tells us that they are brave because they are ready to face of plays circumstances.
- They went fight for their country however they knew that the battle would be useless.
- In The Sun Also Rises we have the praise of the soldier by his colonel who finds exceptional what happened to him. He is proud of him, he said in an exaggerated way that he lost more than his life, he is amazed all the more whether he is an English foreigner.
- Except put this vision positive of the colonel, the loss of the soldier is tragic and especially consequent indeed this one can’t have any relationship because the woman he loves doesn’t want to live without sexuality.

So, in the text of Tennyson the war is described as impressive and spectacular while in that of Hemingway we speak to us about a joke told through a genital loss. However the soldiers are represented in a laudatory way even if the war had tragic consequences on Jacob, the soldier of the novel of Hemingway because by losing his genitals he lost the possibility of having a love relation in a world where the sexuality is more important than anything.

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