... ] streak the silence'. There is also the use of alliteration: flights', flowing flakes that flock' and we watch wandering the wind', so that all of the sounds culminate to produce a flurry of activity. It is interesting to note though, that Owen at the end of this description of sudden movement, ends this stanza (as he does most of the stanzas in the poem) with the ... fruit. For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here, therefore were born, For love of God seems dying. (lines 35-39) suggest that the soldiers believe that only by fighting and...

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