... a situation where you can't get away from it?, then he smiles at his patient Prior and explains that he is sorry 'to sound so impersonal? as he realises Prior hatesbeing 'the patient?.? This way of talking to and treating the patients shows love, compassion and Rivers trying to understand, which contrasts with Yealland harsh treatment of his patients. We hear Yealland sayThe patient has ... like an animal. Owen describes the men as havingdrooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish?. This is poignant, because as in other poems Owen has written he portrays the men of war as animals ...

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• Grade Level: High School