... is spreading all around them. There is one man who can't get his helmet on and the others can do nothing to help him. In this verse Owen uses the colour green twice. This is as though he is almost painting a picture of what's happening. Saying the man is drowning in a green sea is making it almost cinematic. There are then two lines that ... loved his face. He was young then and had an even younger look about him. Now he doesn't as the war has aged him. Owen then uses vivid images to describe how the man lost his blood down the shell-holes in the battle. Leap of purple spurted from his ...

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• Grade Level: High School