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”
Futility - Physical & Mental #2 (Rhetorical Question + Rigor Mortis)
“Are sides full nerved, still-warm, too hard to stir?”
Futility - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Metaphor)
“Whispering of fields half-sown”
Futility - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Rhetorical Question + Rigor Mortis)
“Are sides full nerved, still-warm, too hard to stir?”
Insensibility - Futility Of War #1 (Rhetorical Question)
“How should we see our task but through his blunt and lashless eyes?”
Insensibility - Futility Of War #2 (Use Of Anaphora)
“Nor sad, nor proud, nor curious at all”
Insensibility - Physical & Mental #1 (Symbolism)
“Having seen all things red, their eyes are rid of the hurt of the colour of blood forever”
Insensibility - Physical & Mental #2 (Gallows Humour)
“Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned”
Insensibility - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Biblical Allusion (Beatitudes))
“Happy are those who lose imagination: they have enough to carry with ammunition”
Insensibility - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Extended Metaphor)
“He cannot tell old mens placidity from his”
The Next War - Futility Of War #1 (Foreshadowing)
“We laughed knowing that better men would come, and greater wars”
The Next War - Futility Of War #2 (Paradox)
“He wars on Death - for lives; not men - for flags”
The Next War - Physical & Mental #1 (Personification)
“We’ve sniffed the thick green odour of his breath”
The Next War - Physical & Mental #2 (Allusion)
“We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe”
The Next War - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Emphasis on ‘never’ mid sentence)
“Oh death was never an enemy of ours!”
The Next War - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Repetition)
“We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.”
Strange Meeting - Futility Of War #1 (Repetition)
“I mean the truth untold, the pity of war, the pity was distilled.”
Strange Meeting - Futility Of War #2 (Metaphor)
“I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, even with truths that lie too deep for taint.”
Strange Meeting - Physical & Mental #1 (Repetition)
“I mean the truth untold, the pity of war, the pity was distilled.”
Strange Meeting - Physical & Mental #2 (Metaphor + Allusion)
“Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were”
Strange Meeting - Loss Of Innocence #1 (Paradox)
“By his dead smile, I knew we stood in hell”
Strange Meeting - Loss Of Innocence #2 (Metaphor + Allusion)
“Foreheads of men have bled where no wounds were”
