... . They are men cheated into battle by false propaganda by such poems as "The Charge of the Light Brigade". Reality of war is dead corpses on the floor, bits of people on no man land scattered over the place. In the second line, Owen is describing the soldiers " Knock kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the mud" This is portraying ... soldiers are. In the seventh line, he says they are " Drunk with fatigue" The men are so used to the bombs dropping and the noise they are deaf to any kind of sound "Deaf even to the hoots" In the second stanza, gas bombs are attacking the soldiers....

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... backs And towards are distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. The way Owen describes the trudge back to camp allows the reader to open their minds to the events that ... horrible things have taken place. Owen's basically describes how exhausting and emotionally World War I was. It seems as if Owen's is trying to discourage everyone's thoughts about war. Even though people die for ones country no one should have to go th...

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• Grade Level: High School