... from inhaling the poisons. The simile like a man in fire, relates to the reaction of the soldiers body to the poisons that engulfed it. "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning", is using imagery to relate to the reader's senses, the picture the watching solider saw. The misty panes is the glass in the eyepieces of the gas mask. When a human comes into contact with poisonous gas, the lungs fill with fluid. The filling of the lungs had the same effect ... as when a person drowns. In the last stanza the author once again uses imagery and rhyme to complete the theme of the poem. She appea...

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... remembered. This line needs to be remembered as the poem is based on the idea of it as 'the old lie' mocking the established belief of nationalism and duty to your country. Also, it is mocking the established authoritative language of Latin that was reserved for the courts and churches. The line is sarcastic as Owen has now himself seen a gas attack and a man drown 'under a green sea', and has found out that dying out there in ... Youth' is a sonnet. Sonnets traditionally were happy and about love or an epic tale. In contrast, Owen uses the rigid structure of a sonnet (two quatrains and...

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... the misty panes and thick green light As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. The man was dying as a result of not putting his gas mask on in time. The imagery Owen uses to describe this mans death leaves an image of excruciating pain and suffering. Perhaps the most important part of the poem comes in the last stanza. He graphically describes the deceased solider as the rest of the solders see him. The ... corpse obviously left a horrible image in the mind of whoever is talking in this poem. Owen then goes on to say, "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children arden...

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... ecstasy" depicts with a twist of irony as it is depicting a completely bewildering time for the soldiers. As readers advance further, the caesuras between lines thirteen and sixteen of the end of second stanza serves to enter another type of rhythm, evoking a sense of the bewilderment of the battle, and this is where the transition takes place. "As under a green sea I saw him drowning. In ... of the drudgery and horrors that soldiers experienced depicted in the first two stanzas of the poem, there were not any signs of patriotic motives. In the end of the four lines, usage of the words su...

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