Dulce Et Decorum Est Flashcards
Poet
Wilfred Owen
Similee
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
Coughing like hags
Flound’ring like a man in fire
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning
Metaphors
Drunk with fatigue
I saw him drowning
An ecstacy of fumbling
Rhyme
Line 1: sacks, line 3: backs
Line 2: sludge, line 4: trudge
Line 5: boots, line 7: hoots
Imagery
Limped on blood-shod
Someone still was yelling out and stumbling
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
The blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Tone
Bleak - ‘He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning’
Dangerous - ‘Gas!Gas!Quick boys!’
Uncomfortable - ‘limped on blood-shod’
Horrific - ‘blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs’
Message
Shows us condition of the soldiers - ‘Bent double’