Dulce Et Decorum Est Flashcards by Novera Zaman | Brainscape

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B.D.L.O.B.U.S

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BENT DOUBLE LIKE OLD BEGGARS UNDER SACKS

Exhaustion

Soldiers are lowest of the low

Weak and helpless

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B.S.A.W.L

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BLOOD-SHOD. ALL WENT LAME

Dehumanising

No individuality

Reduced to one condition

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G.G.Q.B

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Gas! GAs! Quick, boys!

Urgency and transition

Monosyllables

Exclamatives

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F.L.A.M.I.F.O.L

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FLOUND’RING LIKE A MAN IN FIRE OR LIME

Simile compares struggle to intense pain

Juxtaposition symbolises different forms of deep turmoil

Frickatives

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M.P.A.T.G.L

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MISTY PANES AND THICK GREEN LIGHTS

Landscape imagery evokes eeriness and obscurity

Symbolises alienation and an unsettling mood

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I.A.M.D

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IN ALL MY DREAMS

PTSD

Ironic

Firsthand experience

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G.C.D

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GUTTERING, CHOKING, DROWNING

Tricolon

Excessive detail

Semantic field of suffering

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C.G.F.F.L

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COME GARGLING FROM FROTH-CORRUPTED LUNGS

Effect of gas

Visceral image

Detail

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D.E.D.E/P.P.M

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST/ PRO PATRIA MOI

Ironic and patriotic

It is sweet and fitting to die for ones country

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CONTEXT

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Wilfred own, suffered from shell shock

Rejection of pro war sentiment

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FORM AND STRUCTURE

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Iambic pentameter
Simple rhyme scheme

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