... one is subjected to gas shells. The first stanza describes the soldier's state of well being. They have turned their backs on the "hunting flares" at the front lines. They are exhausted, weak, and sick from the elements but still continue to march forward to a place where rest can be found. The first stanza is ... stanza deals with a gas attack where all the men are rushing to put their gas masks on. One man is not fortunate enough to get his on in time. The lines, "under a green sea, I saw him drowning" (14) and " . . . before my helpless sight"(15) tell the reader that despite the numb...

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War brings forth both the best and worst of mankind; from the untold acts of heroism vividly displayed on the front lines to the tragic deaths of innocent young men who have not yet had the chance to live. Glamour and beauty are ... Solely the main character did not experience the tragic mental affects of war. Robert himself believed that the men with whom he had stood on the front lines with were too psychologically scarred to return to their normal lives. Timothy Findley shows the emotional destruction that Robert would have seen had he been a ... clearly depict the physical brutality of wa...

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... two are in sonnet form, however the next two stanzas are similar to sonnet form, but are looser in structure. Another point is that in significant lines, Owen changes the rhythm. This is very effective, as it highlights that line and allows the reader time to reflect. Another factor, which I particularly ... to the fact that Owen is wearing a gas mask-"Dim through the misty panes and thick green light". As with the ending lines in the first paragraph, the last lines in the second paragraph also give us an important piece of information that changes our perspective. The "story" that we ...

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... did exactly what they wanted to. Wilfred Owens's powerful poem, "Dulce et decorum est", was about a group of battle weary soldiers coming back from the front lines to rest. Owen used similes to get across the reality of their situation, "Coughing like hags", "bent double like old beggars". These similes help make the ... were pictured traditionally. The opening stanza of the poem describes how the war has taken it's toll on their health because they were coming back from the front lines deaf, "Deaf, even to the hoots of tired, Five nines", and tiredly stumbling." Drunk with fatigue", is ...

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... is taken from a Roman poem composed by Horace, who was very patriotic, which contrasts with Owen's negative views towards the war. Within then first few lines of the poem Owen includes several examples of stylish alliteration ("Bent double, like old beggars Knock-kneed") to further enhance the grotesque imagery that he incorporates ... Doomed Youth, although to a lesser degree as this poem is in the form of a sonnet with a rhyming pattern of ABABCDCDEFFEGG. . It has fourteen lines, divided up into two movements. An alternate line rhyme scheme is used in the octet. This changes to a more ...

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... filled with smells of contamination as they walk through the freezing cold water that they had to persist on tramping in. The men then walked away from the front line where the flares are described as "haunting". They remind the men of people dying as the flame of the flares brought them back to the battlefield ... so the officers don't want the fresh recruits to see them so they have a traffic light system where the new recruits go up one tunnel to the front line while the wounded come down the other tunnel so their disturbing injuries can't be seem. They then have to walk about four mi...

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... ). The poem tells of a trip that Owen and his platoon of exhausted soldiers had while they were painfully making their way back to base after a harrowing time at the battle front when a gas shell was fired at them. As a result of this, a soldier in his platoon was fatally gassed. Owen has arranged the poem in three sections, each dealing with a different ... or nursery rhyme. This technique serves to emphasize the solemn and serious content. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base from the front line. The simile in line one, "Bent double, like old...

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... ). The poem tells of a trip that Owen and his platoon of exhausted soldiers had while they were painfully making their way back to base after a harrowing time at the battle front when a gas shell was fired at them. As a result of this, a soldier in his platoon was fatally gassed. Owen has arranged the poem in three sections, each dealing with a different ... or nursery rhyme. This technique serves to emphasize the solemn and serious content. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base from the front line. The simile in line one, "Bent double, like old...

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... you could hear My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory- The poem ties it all together in the last few lines. In Latin, the phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro partria mori" means: "It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country." Owen calls this a lie by using good diction ... they who used him, and the many others, simply as cannon-fodder. This horrible expression has come to be used to reflect the generals" wishes to order men into the front line to carry on fighting despite knowing that no advance can be achieved, the deaths of th...

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