... battalion are attacked with mustard gas and one of the soldiers not putting his gas mask on in time, suffers from the effects of it. Wilfred Owen aims the poem at the government of the time criticising their decisions and for perpetuating the attitude that it is heroic to fight as a soldier ... 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. Owen aims the poem at an older audience and the government that were punishing these men to go to war when they didn't know the circumstances; phys...

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