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             The green light Owen talks of is the sight through their gas masks. Owen uses a simile saying that the man is drowning in a green sea. The reality of this is that the man is drowning in a sea of his own toxic blood. Owen also uses metaphors such as, "Drunk with fatigue", to display how tired the infantrymen are, this metaphor leads us to believe that the men are so tired that they are unaware what is happening around them! The poet's choice of vocabulary in verse one is very effective in communicating the message of fatigue. He uses words such as sludge, trudge, and haunting to describe the harsh conditions of the battlefield. Owen tells us how this memory has stayed with him. The sickening sight of a man lunging at him.
             Owen seems to have a great fear of the gas attacks when he talks of them. Owen talks of all of the nightmares he has had because of the war and this event in particular.
             Owen says" In all my dreams before my helpless sight".
             He describes how the man was taken away and the narrator Owen walked behind and saw his face. Owen is still haunted by the nightmare.
             "We flung him in".
             The dead bodies are treated like meat there are so many deaths it becomes like a routine thing. He see's the horror that is standing behind the man who has been gassed to death.
             "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children or ardent for some desperate glory.".
             Owen is saying that if you could see the things he had seen then you would not believe the lie. By saying this he is expressing the bitterness he has not only for the army but the situation as a whole.
             Owen adds more examples of this throughout the last stanza.
             Owens main question to the reader in the last stanza is before going into the army think carefully of what you are doing as you might get and see something in great contrast to what you may have imagined.
             The poem is describing a terrible shocking death by gas, how can it be sweet a honourable to die for ones country if you die like this.


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