... is scandalous: these men who had their whole lives before them are now forced to rememberfroth - corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer? beingdrunk with fatigue; deaf with even to the hoots of shells?. What disturbs us as well as the violent and vivid imagery is the fact that Owen stresses the youth of ... how these permanent scars of war will always remain with these men who 'marched asleep?. These sores that are asobscene as cancer, bitter as the cud?, have silenced people. There is a terrible cutting sound being created with the alliteration of the C's in this part of the poem. It's bitte...

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