Comparison Between War Poetry & Macbeth

Owens popular opinion of conflict is similar to the opinions shown in Macbeth because they both march the brutality of war. Owen does this when he says the blood, Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud. Shakespeare as well mentions this when he says of Macbeth, with his brandishd steel, Which smoke-dried with bloody execution, The bloodshed causes regret in all three pieces of work. Shakespeare shows this of Macbeth where he says, I gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish the estate o the world were now undone. The regret within this statement is clearly shown because nothing would want to move back into time unless they wanted to change something for the better. Owen demonstrates this where he says, incurable sores on desolate tongues, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest, To children ardent for some desperate glory, the words innocent and children connect to show how that he regrets his leading of men into war. Furtherm ore, Hardys soldier hesitates when he says, calamus him dead becauseBecause because he is trying to reason his committing of murder.Similarly to Hardy and Owen, Shakespeare makes war seem a corrupting haul both physically and mentally. War turned the Macbeth who was praised by the King, into a Macbeth who was killing people regardless of who they were and in any case a Macbeth who was disgraced and humiliated in the latter end of his life and after he died. Owen also faced this corrupting force through war, because he says, In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. This shows how terrible nightmares and flashbacks are caused by participation in war.A much more unsophisticated displacement of this corruption can be seen in The Man He Killed because the soldier killed a person who had neer wronged him in any way and had he had met him outside of war, he would have treat, if met where any bar is, Or help to half a crown. As well as the many similarities, contrasts are also present. Shakespeare depicts Macbeth opinion of war as honourable. Unlike Shakespeare, the war poets describe war as, unnatural and horrific. There also changes of opinions of war. Macbeths opinion of war stays the same throughout. However, Owen and Hardy show how war corrupts mind, body and soul.