Owen Flashcards
Anthem - Futility Of War #1 (Zoomorphism)
“What passing bells for those who die as cattle”
Anthem - Futility Of War #2 (Metaphor)
“No mockeries now for them; no prayers; nor bells”
Anthem - Physical & Mental #2 (Personification + Metonymy)
“And bugles calling them from sad shires.”
Anthem - Physical & Mental #1 (Zoomorphism)
“What passing bells for those who die as cattle”
Anthem - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Zoomorphism)
“What passing bells for those who die as cattle”
Anthem - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Metaphor)
“No mockeries now for them, no prayers nor bells”
Dulce - Futility Of War #1 (Authorial Intrusion)
“My friend you will not tell with high zest, to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie”
Dulce - Futility Of War #2 (Symbolism + Breaking Of Syllabic Meter)
“The old lie: / Dulce Et Decorum Est / Pro Patria Mio”
Dulce - Physical & Mental #1 (Shift Of Tense (Past -> Present))
“In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”
Dulce - Physical & Mental #2 (Onomatopoeia)
“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs,”
Dulce - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Diction)
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge”
Dulce - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Metaphor + Repetition of “Green”)
“Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a green sea, i saw him drowning”
Futility - Futility Of War #1 (Biblical Reference)
“Was it for this the clay Grew tall?”
Futility - Futility Of War #2 (Rhetorical Question + Rigor Mortis)
“Are sides full nerved, still-warm, too hard to stir?”
Futility - Physical & Mental #1 (Religious Metaphor + Contrasting Tone)
“Move him into the sun - gently its touch awoke him once”