1. Dulche Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
This description of beggars: "coughing like hags" encourages disgust and revulsion towards the soldiers and forcing the reader to see the transformation of the soldiers as a result of war putting it in a negative light. ... "And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,/...If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood/Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs" He cleverly writes using a soldiers persona of a comrade who is suffering, portraying this using visual and auditory imagery. This evokes emotions in the reader to sympathise towards the soldier whose blood is 'gargling' in ...
- Word Count: 690
- Approx Pages: 3
- Grade Level: Undergraduate