The poems “Dulce et Decorum est,” written by Wilfred Owen, and “Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument” written by Ralph Waldo Emerson are both about times of pain and misery; yet the events in the poem and the view points of the authors’ are notably different in many ways. For example the time the poems were written is close to eighty-five years apart. “Dulce et Decorum est,” poem was written in 1921, and “…showed first 75 words of 578 total…

…showed last 75 words of 578 total…poem. He shows the pride of a soldier. Both poems show a lot of heart whether it be on the front lines of a war, or sixty years after the battle of Concord. The two authors Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Wilfred Owen are different and they exult it through their poems. Yet the two poems with their authors are the same. Two men, and two poems with two views expressed with spirit, emotion, and courage.