In the first stanza, he describes the way the soldiers are feeling and their thoughts. He shows this in writing the mental and emotional effects of the war. He uses phrases such as ‘our brains ache’ and other phrases such as ‘worried by the silence’. These sentences show and represent the feelings and the emotional traumas the soldiers are suffering. Wilfred Owen is trying to make the point that war is as much an emotional battle than a physical battle. He also proves that it isn’t just the fighting taking place that causes damage to the soldiers, but the surrounding environment also.

In the second stanza Wilfred Owen moves onto the physical side of the war. He talks about the fighting it self. But also it talks about the weather and the mental tricks it played on the soldiers. Wilfred Owen rights ‘we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire, Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles’. These two lines are trying to give the conception of the wind acting as a perso

The fifth stanza is based around the winter. Wilfred Owen’s first line of the stanza is ‘Pale flakes with lingering stealth come feeling for our faces’. This line represents that winter has come and the snow is heavily falling. Wilfred Owen also rights ‘We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams’, I think he is trying to say here that he has gone over the top of the trench and has been caught in no mans land. Through his writing it looks like he is lying in the middle of the field on his own facing death. Also the last line of the stanza is ‘Is it that we are dying’, this small line has a massive effect on the reader.

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