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Anthem - Futility Of War #1 (Zoomorphism)

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“What passing bells for those who die as cattle”

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Anthem - Futility Of War #2 (Metaphor)

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“No mockeries now for them; no prayers; nor bells”

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Anthem - Physical & Mental #2 (Personification + Metonymy)

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“And bugles calling them from sad shires.”

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Anthem - Physical & Mental #1 (Zoomorphism)

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“What passing bells for those who die as cattle”

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Anthem - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Zoomorphism)

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“What passing bells for those who die as cattle”

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Anthem - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Metaphor)

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“No mockeries now for them, no prayers nor bells”

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Dulce - Futility Of War #1 (Authorial Intrusion)

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“My friend you will not tell with high zest, to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie”

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Dulce - Futility Of War #2 (Symbolism + Breaking Of Syllabic Meter)

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“The old lie: / Dulce Et Decorum Est / Pro Patria Mio”

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Dulce - Physical & Mental #1 (Shift Of Tense (Past -> Present))

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“In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”

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Dulce - Physical & Mental #2 (Onomatopoeia)

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“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs,”

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Dulce - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Diction)

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“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge”

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Dulce - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Metaphor + Repetition of “Green”)

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“Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a green sea, i saw him drowning”

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Futility - Futility Of War #1 (Biblical Reference)

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“Was it for this the clay Grew tall?”

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Futility - Futility Of War #2 (Rhetorical Question + Rigor Mortis)

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“Are sides full nerved, still-warm, too hard to stir?”

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Futility - Physical & Mental #1 (Religious Metaphor + Contrasting Tone)

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“Move him into the sun - gently its touch awoke him once”

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Futility - Physical & Mental #2 (Rhetorical Question + Rigor Mortis)

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“Are sides full nerved, still-warm, too hard to stir?”

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Futility - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Metaphor)

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“Whispering of fields half-sown”

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Futility - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Rhetorical Question + Rigor Mortis)

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“Are sides full nerved, still-warm, too hard to stir?”

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Insensibility - Futility Of War #1 (Rhetorical Question)

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“How should we see our task but through his blunt and lashless eyes?”

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Insensibility - Futility Of War #2 (Use Of Anaphora)

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“Nor sad, nor proud, nor curious at all”

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Insensibility - Physical & Mental #1 (Symbolism)

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“Having seen all things red, their eyes are rid of the hurt of the colour of blood forever”

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Insensibility - Physical & Mental #2 (Gallows Humour)

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“Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned”

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Insensibility - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Biblical Allusion (Beatitudes))

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“Happy are those who lose imagination: they have enough to carry with ammunition”

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Insensibility - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Extended Metaphor)

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“He cannot tell old mens placidity from his”

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The Next War - Futility Of War #1 (Foreshadowing)

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“We laughed knowing that better men would come, and greater wars”

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The Next War - Futility Of War #2 (Paradox)

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“He wars on Death - for lives; not men - for flags”

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The Next War - Physical & Mental #1 (Personification)

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“We’ve sniffed the thick green odour of his breath”

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The Next War - Physical & Mental #2 (Allusion)

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“We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe”

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The Next War - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Emphasis on ‘never’ mid sentence)

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“Oh death was never an enemy of ours!”

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The Next War - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Repetition)

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“We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.”

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Strange Meeting - Futility Of War #1 (Repetition)

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“I mean the truth untold, the pity of war, the pity was distilled.”

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Strange Meeting - Futility Of War #2 (Metaphor)

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“I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, even with truths that lie too deep for taint.”

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Strange Meeting - Physical & Mental #1 (Repetition)

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“I mean the truth untold, the pity of war, the pity was distilled.”

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Strange Meeting - Physical & Mental #2 (Metaphor + Allusion)

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“Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were”

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Strange Meeting - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Paradox)

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“By his dead smile, I knew we stood in hell”

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Strange Meeting - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Metaphor + Allusion)

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“Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were”