... . A sense of monotony is evident with the use of the word sludge. The march must have seemed endless and boring to the casual observer. Reading these lines makes you feel tired and weary, sympathetic to their plight. The third and fourth lines continue the tone and theme of the first two. "Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, and toward our distant rest began to trudge". The phrase "haunting flares" is a reference to ... keeping with the author's attempts to remove the glory from their situation. The second stanza starts immediately with a shock. "GAS! GAS!" The words jolt th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . 30"Instead of preaching forty year," 31My neighbour Parson Thirdly said, 32"I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer." 33Again the guns disturbed the hour, 34Roaring their readiness to avenge, 35As far inland as Stourton Tower, 36And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge. The main theme of this poem is about the atrocities or horrific actions in war. This poem was published shortly before World War I, so it was ... like predicting the future. Threw the use of imagery it shows us the brutality of war, so bad that it was awakening the dead. The central question that Hardy seems to be asking ... u...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School