1. Wilfred Owen - War poems
... are being gassed and the gas is spreading all around them. There is one man who can't get his helmet on and the others can do nothing to help him. In this verse Owen uses the colour green twice. This is as though he is almost painting a picture of what's happening. Saying the ... '. These words have hard syllables and are onomatopoeic. The fourth verse portrays what happens to the dead soldier; Owen uses vivid images to describe this. He said that the soldiers have incurable sores on innocent tongues'. This is saying that the pain will never heal. The word innocent also has two meanings....
- Word Count: 1305
- Approx Pages: 5
- Grade Level: High School