... old women. Their tiredness is described through allusions to sleep and alcohol, as in the phrase "drunk with fatigue", which makes the reader picture the soldiers dragging themselves as drunken people do. An important metaphor is present in the second stanza, which compares the process of gas poisoning to that of drowning. The gas is referred to as a "thick green light, /As under a green ... also has an important role in emphasizing the effects present in the imagery of the poem. Asyndetons in the first stanza express the tiredness of the soldiers by constant pausing that results from fr...

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... terrifying dangers such flak blowing up around them and enemy fighter planes strafing them. The last line of the poem is conceivably the best graphic picture to portray the cruelty and the coldness of war, when he states that "when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" (551).From the ambiguity of this line we can understand at least two meanings at once. First ... kits, Military Payment Certificates, C rations, and two or three canteens of water." (278). He describes the things soldiers carry with them to show not only the exact meaning of what they carried but also symbo...

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... brutality of war, but one does so with far greater depth and a more accurate picture of the actual conditions which soldiers on the front lines face on a daily basis. The weather was nearly an enemy unto itself and "Exposure" portrays the conditions the soldiers were forced to endure in a simple, but effective manor. Description is quite vivid in Owen's poem, and overall there is a good sense ... and Owen opines "We only know war lasts, rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy." This reference is the everyday experience of war. No soldier knows whether the sunrise they just saw will be their l...

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... -off sounds of guns allude to a fiercer battle somewhere else. The soldiers could also be questioning why they are involved in a war in the first place. Possibly, the explanation for this ambiguity in the poem is to show that the soldiers do not seem to fully understand the reason behind the war and, on a more personal level, the reason why their lives are being placed in jeopardy. This further ... writer, realized this and in his poem effected a more somber picture of a soldier's experiences in war-torn Europe, and ingeniously subverts elements of the old Romantic style to do so. In rel...

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... running around in different directions, getting tangled up with each other. In stanza five and six the rhythm is the same as in one to show that they are retreating and galloping back to safety Throughout the poem Tennyson uses rhyme to make the poem sound exciting for example "Theirs not to make reply,theirs not to reason why,theirs but to do and die ... ". All these lines rhyme and makes you bounce along with it. I also think that the rhyme is a tribute to them, like an anthem. It shows that Tennyson has taken extreme care and consideration, to show respect to the men who fought in the...

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... cores on innocent tongues,- (19-24) Owen's language in the forth and final stanzas, paints a picture that is so vivid that enables readers to see this experience in their mind and allows them to easily refuse the offer that the poet presents. Owen's realistic descriptions form the foundation of the poem. It is the last few lines of the forth stanza that Owen points out that war is not ... ). He confirms this by saying: "Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts" (27). Women are perceived as very negative in the poem. It is apparent that Owen is using them to show how they agreed and en...

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... of beggars who have not slept in a bed for weeks on end. Also, the simile "coughing like hags" ,in line two, helps to depict the soldiers" poor health and depressed state of mind. Owen makes us picture the soldiers as ill, disturbed and utterly exhausted. He shows that this is not the government-projected stereotype of a soldier, in gleaming boots and crisp new uniform, but ... "(line 24) not only tells the reader why the troops will never forget the experience, but also how there are disturbing tales that the troops will never be able to tell without remembering the extremely painful ex...

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... of beggars who have not slept in a bed for weeks on end. Also, the simile "coughing like hags" ,in line two, helps to depict the soldiers" poor health and depressed state of mind. Owen makes us picture the soldiers as ill, disturbed and utterly exhausted. He shows that this is not the government-projected stereotype of a soldier, in gleaming boots and crisp new uniform, but ... "(line 24) not only tells the reader why the troops will never forget the experience, but also how there are disturbing tales that the troops will never be able to tell without remembering the extremely painful ex...

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... not concerned with poetry. My subject is war, and the pity of war, The poetry is in the pity."-Wilfred Owen "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks." Is the melancholy air in which the famous poem- "Dulce et Decorum Est", begins. The content of this poem is based upon war and tragedy. Wilfred Owen tries to show the harsh reality of war, to people who were still ... of sin." Owens could be implying that even a devil would be sick of what was occurring to the soldiers. The last line is the most important in the poem, it says- "The old lie: Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori." The sig...

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