... a sense of anticipation and of something ready to come to a head at any moment. The succession of sound in Stanza four finally breaks into the feeling of uneasiness in the poem with a similar use of assonance- the play of s' sounds such as the sudden, successive flights of bullets [which] streak the silence'. There is also the use of alliteration: flights', flowing flakes that flock' and we watch wandering ... the wind', so that all of the sounds culminate to produce a flurry of activity. It is ... and William Coleridge were especially a favorite of the young war poet and Owen alludes ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: High School