Dulce Et Decorum Est Flashcards

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Poet

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Wilfred Owen

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Similee

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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

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Metaphors

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Drunk with fatigue
I saw him drowning
An ecstacy of fumbling

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Rhyme

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Line 1: sacks, line 3: backs
Line 2: sludge, line 4: trudge
Line 5: boots, line 7: hoots

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Imagery

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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

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Tone

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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’

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Message

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Shows us condition of the soldiers - ‘Bent double’

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