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Dulce et Decorum Est Analysis
Author: Poetry of Wilfred Owen Type: Poetry Views: 5443
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1 Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
2 Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
3 Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs,
4 And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
5 Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
6 But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;
7 Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
8 Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
9 Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling
10 Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
11 But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
12 And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
13 Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
14 As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
15 In all my dreams before my helpless sight
16 He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
17 If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
18 Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
19 And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
20 His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,
21 If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
22 Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
23 Bitter as the cud
24 Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
25 My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
26 To children ardent for some desperate glory,
27 The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
28 Pro patria mori.
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if every one is a guest. do people actually become members of this site?
| Posted on 2010-09-01 | by a guest
if every one is a guest. do people actually become members of this site?
| Posted on 2010-09-01 | by a guest
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if every one is a guest. do people actually become members of this site?
| Posted on 2010-09-01 | by a guest
if every one is a guest. do people actually become members of this site?
| Posted on 2010-09-01 | by a guest
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the green image may also refer to the fact that the gas mask lenses were tinged with the green colour :S
| Posted on 2010-08-25 | by a guest
the green image may also refer to the fact that the gas mask lenses were tinged with the green colour :S
| Posted on 2010-08-25 | by a guest
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im doing this as a visual representation for english,
this poem is really deep and meaingful, its actually quite beautiful.
| Posted on 2010-08-01 | by a guest
im doing this as a visual representation for english,
this poem is really deep and meaingful, its actually quite beautiful.
| Posted on 2010-08-01 | by a guest
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These are a few of my anylysis....
my first one.
The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, by Wilfred Owen, details the horrors of World War One from the point of view of the soldiers using fantastic and violent imagery. The third stanza contains excellent examples of Owen’s use of imagery. The unknown speaker internally shouts “Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!”, placing the reader in the moment. The exclamatory “Gas!” and then even more emphatic “GAS!” are more descriptive of the situation than if the speaker had elaborated intensively on the poison. The sudden jolt mimics the attack and the terror of the soldiers as they race to don the “clumsy helmets just in time. The phrases “Quick, boys!”, “ecstasy of fumbling”, and “clumsy helmets” recalls the young age of the inexperienced comrades, providing a stark contrast with the pitted landscape “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light.”
Throughout the poem, the speaker crescendos in sound, color, speed, and image. The third stanza begins with the jolt of panic and attempt to save their own lives. “Just in time” progresses to “But someone still was yelling out and stumbling/ Like a man in fire or lime.–” The crescendo is of a lone man representing the worst of the gas that the rest of the men escaped, and caught in a bright spotlight of imagery of “fire or lime.” The dash at the end of the line pulls us to the next lines – “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,/ As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.” – abruptly decrescendoing to a faded spotlight, “misty” and “thick.” The lime dulls to green and the man in fire becomes the muted, more euphemistic “drowning.” These images allow us to experience not the minute details of the scene, as a bystander would witness, but the fury and pain of fear and toxic air that precisely serve Owen’s purpose to warn us against the so-called “glories” of war marketed to their paradoxically juvenile audience.
My second one.
Dulce et Decorum est
Owen describes a group of young soldiers leaving the front line trenches after a spell of duty there. Owen attacks those who express the “old Lie” that it is sweet and decorous to die for one’s country. Owens bitter anger is clearly conveyed through his vivid imagery and disparaging tone.
Owen uses vivid imagery selecting textured, guttural diction to convey the traumatic events that he experiences. The soldiers exhaustion is effectively conveyd n the metaphor “drunk with fatigue.” This conjures up the image of men staggering uncoordinatedly, exhausted and deprived of sleep. Their unkempt dishevelled state heightens the readers understanding of the hardship they have endured. They are described as being “like old beggars under sacks.” The word “beggars” is effective as it implicates a sense of weakness and helplessness. The connotations associated with beggars are mirrored in the soldiers dirty and torn uniforms which are likened to “sacks.” The dishevelled description is the opposite to the image of the smart young men marching off to war. The men’s movement is described as a “trudge” also enhancing their apparent state of exhaustion. Their slow laborious pace is echoed in the slow moving pace of poem. The movements are again opposite to that of the marching, smart uniformed perception of soldiers. The pace of the [oem is slowed due to the large amounts of punctuation which is very effective. However in the second verse the ace quickens as the danger for the men increases. This effective change in speed reflects what is happening to the soles making the reader feel more involved. The monosyllabic commands of “Gas! GAS! Quick boys” is a mean so quickening the pace as the speakers voice becomes more panicked and urgent. The exclamation of Gas is effective due to the use of capitals and exclamation marks indicating the volume and urgency of the information ultimately making the command more emphatic. The literary device of repetition emphasising and highlighting it’s significance. As the soldiers react to this danger there is an “ecstacy of fumbling” as they reach for their gas masks. They are “clumsy” as they cannot seem to react quickly enough in their soporific state.
My third one.
The opening stanza is characterised by language about 'fatigue': the soldiers 'marched asleep', they 'trudge', and 'limped on'. They are 'deaf', 'lame' and 'blind'; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects.
The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim 'guttering, choking, drowning'. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death.
The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong, representing both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen: 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most: the transformation in the face of the victim. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound reflects the agonised twisting of the gas victim.There is not a clearly defined structure to the poem, although Owen does make use of rhyme, mostly on alternate line endings.
The poem opens with a description of trench life and the conditions faced by the soldiers. Then comes the gas attack, and the poem offers a graphic description of the effects of such an attack.
My fourth one. TRANSLATIONS.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST1
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares2 we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest3 began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots4
Of tired, outstripped5 Five-Nines6 that dropped behind.
Gas!7 Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets8 just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime9 . . .
Dim, through the misty panes10 and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,11 choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud12
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest13
To children ardent14 for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.15
8 October 1917 - March, 1918
1 DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country
2 rockets which were sent up to burn with a brilliant glare to light up men and other targets in the area between the front lines (See illustration, page 118 of Out in the Dark.)
3 a camp away from the front line where exhausted soldiers might rest for a few days, or longer
4 the noise made by the shells rushing through the air
5 outpaced, the soldiers have struggled beyond the reach of these shells which are now falling behind them as they struggle away from the scene of battle
6 Five-Nines - 5.9 calibre explosive shells
7 poison gas. From the symptoms it would appear to be chlorine or phosgene gas. The filling of the lungs with fluid had the same effects as when a person drowne
| Posted on 2010-06-12 | by a guest
These are a few of my anylysis....
my first one.
The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, by Wilfred Owen, details the horrors of World War One from the point of view of the soldiers using fantastic and violent imagery. The third stanza contains excellent examples of Owen’s use of imagery. The unknown speaker internally shouts “Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!”, placing the reader in the moment. The exclamatory “Gas!” and then even more emphatic “GAS!” are more descriptive of the situation than if the speaker had elaborated intensively on the poison. The sudden jolt mimics the attack and the terror of the soldiers as they race to don the “clumsy helmets just in time. The phrases “Quick, boys!”, “ecstasy of fumbling”, and “clumsy helmets” recalls the young age of the inexperienced comrades, providing a stark contrast with the pitted landscape “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light.”
Throughout the poem, the speaker crescendos in sound, color, speed, and image. The third stanza begins with the jolt of panic and attempt to save their own lives. “Just in time” progresses to “But someone still was yelling out and stumbling/ Like a man in fire or lime.–” The crescendo is of a lone man representing the worst of the gas that the rest of the men escaped, and caught in a bright spotlight of imagery of “fire or lime.” The dash at the end of the line pulls us to the next lines – “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,/ As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.” – abruptly decrescendoing to a faded spotlight, “misty” and “thick.” The lime dulls to green and the man in fire becomes the muted, more euphemistic “drowning.” These images allow us to experience not the minute details of the scene, as a bystander would witness, but the fury and pain of fear and toxic air that precisely serve Owen’s purpose to warn us against the so-called “glories” of war marketed to their paradoxically juvenile audience.
My second one.
Dulce et Decorum est
Owen describes a group of young soldiers leaving the front line trenches after a spell of duty there. Owen attacks those who express the “old Lie” that it is sweet and decorous to die for one’s country. Owens bitter anger is clearly conveyed through his vivid imagery and disparaging tone.
Owen uses vivid imagery selecting textured, guttural diction to convey the traumatic events that he experiences. The soldiers exhaustion is effectively conveyd n the metaphor “drunk with fatigue.” This conjures up the image of men staggering uncoordinatedly, exhausted and deprived of sleep. Their unkempt dishevelled state heightens the readers understanding of the hardship they have endured. They are described as being “like old beggars under sacks.” The word “beggars” is effective as it implicates a sense of weakness and helplessness. The connotations associated with beggars are mirrored in the soldiers dirty and torn uniforms which are likened to “sacks.” The dishevelled description is the opposite to the image of the smart young men marching off to war. The men’s movement is described as a “trudge” also enhancing their apparent state of exhaustion. Their slow laborious pace is echoed in the slow moving pace of poem. The movements are again opposite to that of the marching, smart uniformed perception of soldiers. The pace of the [oem is slowed due to the large amounts of punctuation which is very effective. However in the second verse the ace quickens as the danger for the men increases. This effective change in speed reflects what is happening to the soles making the reader feel more involved. The monosyllabic commands of “Gas! GAS! Quick boys” is a mean so quickening the pace as the speakers voice becomes more panicked and urgent. The exclamation of Gas is effective due to the use of capitals and exclamation marks indicating the volume and urgency of the information ultimately making the command more emphatic. The literary device of repetition emphasising and highlighting it’s significance. As the soldiers react to this danger there is an “ecstacy of fumbling” as they reach for their gas masks. They are “clumsy” as they cannot seem to react quickly enough in their soporific state.
My third one.
The opening stanza is characterised by language about 'fatigue': the soldiers 'marched asleep', they 'trudge', and 'limped on'. They are 'deaf', 'lame' and 'blind'; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects.
The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim 'guttering, choking, drowning'. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death.
The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong, representing both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen: 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most: the transformation in the face of the victim. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound reflects the agonised twisting of the gas victim.There is not a clearly defined structure to the poem, although Owen does make use of rhyme, mostly on alternate line endings.
The poem opens with a description of trench life and the conditions faced by the soldiers. Then comes the gas attack, and the poem offers a graphic description of the effects of such an attack.
My fourth one. TRANSLATIONS.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST1
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares2 we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest3 began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots4
Of tired, outstripped5 Five-Nines6 that dropped behind.
Gas!7 Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets8 just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime9 . . .
Dim, through the misty panes10 and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,11 choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud12
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest13
To children ardent14 for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.15
8 October 1917 - March, 1918
1 DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country
2 rockets which were sent up to burn with a brilliant glare to light up men and other targets in the area between the front lines (See illustration, page 118 of Out in the Dark.)
3 a camp away from the front line where exhausted soldiers might rest for a few days, or longer
4 the noise made by the shells rushing through the air
5 outpaced, the soldiers have struggled beyond the reach of these shells which are now falling behind them as they struggle away from the scene of battle
6 Five-Nines - 5.9 calibre explosive shells
7 poison gas. From the symptoms it would appear to be chlorine or phosgene gas. The filling of the lungs with fluid had the same effects as when a person drowne
| Posted on 2010-06-12 | by a guest
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The line "ecstasy of fumbling". what does the "ecstasy" here refere to as i thought ecstasy was either a drug or like a happy experience and im sure neither of those fit in here...btw im doin the jc tomorrow aswell!!!
| Posted on 2010-06-08 | by a guest
The line "ecstasy of fumbling". what does the "ecstasy" here refere to as i thought ecstasy was either a drug or like a happy experience and im sure neither of those fit in here...btw im doin the jc tomorrow aswell!!!
| Posted on 2010-06-08 | by a guest
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junior certificate tomorrow!!someone give me some valuble notes !!
| Posted on 2010-06-08 | by a guest
junior certificate tomorrow!!someone give me some valuble notes !!
| Posted on 2010-06-08 | by a guest
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20 -- the poet thinks war is the work of the devil, not something to be praised or admired, and obviously not something to be thought to young boys as 'sweet' or 'proper'...he tells his story of what he thought of the savagely upsetting and horrible happenings and results of war throughout the poem, but also sympathy for the countless soldiers who were wiped out by this deadly mustard gas :'(
| Posted on 2010-06-07 | by a guest
20 -- the poet thinks war is the work of the devil, not something to be praised or admired, and obviously not something to be thought to young boys as 'sweet' or 'proper'...he tells his story of what he thought of the savagely upsetting and horrible happenings and results of war throughout the poem, but also sympathy for the countless soldiers who were wiped out by this deadly mustard gas :'(
| Posted on 2010-06-07 | by a guest
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I noticed this a while back, and no one else seems to have picked up on it, "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning" is not only a graphic depiction of the effects caused by the enemies mustard gas attack but it also portrays an element of the soldiers inevitable death. The 'green sea' described is in the literal sense is the colour of the mustard gas, however on another level it may be seen as the soldiers approaching fate. Although he has survived this one attack, Owen's personification of war engulfs everyone, ensnaring them with the horrors it holds.
| Posted on 2010-05-31 | by a guest
I noticed this a while back, and no one else seems to have picked up on it, "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning" is not only a graphic depiction of the effects caused by the enemies mustard gas attack but it also portrays an element of the soldiers inevitable death. The 'green sea' described is in the literal sense is the colour of the mustard gas, however on another level it may be seen as the soldiers approaching fate. Although he has survived this one attack, Owen's personification of war engulfs everyone, ensnaring them with the horrors it holds.
| Posted on 2010-05-31 | by a guest
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The gas the poet talks about is mustard gas and was commonly used by both the Allies and Germany because it was more lethal than either chlorine or phosgene.
| Posted on 2010-05-25 | by a guest
The gas the poet talks about is mustard gas and was commonly used by both the Allies and Germany because it was more lethal than either chlorine or phosgene.
| Posted on 2010-05-25 | by a guest
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this is good! thank you.. those who actually analysed the poem.. you guys are smart.. XD
| Posted on 2010-05-18 | by a guest
this is good! thank you.. those who actually analysed the poem.. you guys are smart.. XD
| Posted on 2010-05-18 | by a guest
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The opening stanza is characterised by language about 'fatigue': the soldiers 'marched asleep', they 'trudge', and 'limped on'. They are 'deaf', 'lame' and 'blind'; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects.
The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim 'guttering, choking, drowning'. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death.
The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong, representing both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen: 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most: the transformation in the face of the victim. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound reflects the agonised twisting of the gas victim.There is not a clearly defined structure to the poem, although Owen does make use of rhyme, mostly on alternate line endings.
The poem opens with a description of trench life and the conditions faced by the soldiers. Then comes the gas attack, and the poem offers a graphic description of the effects of such an attack.
1 DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country
2 rockets which were sent up to burn with a brilliant glare to light up men and other targets in the area between the front lines (See illustration, page 118 of Out in the Dark.)
3 a camp away from the front line where exhausted soldiers might rest for a few days, or longer
4 the noise made by the shells rushing through the air
5 outpaced, the soldiers have struggled beyond the reach of these shells which are now falling behind them as they struggle away from the scene of battle
6 Five-Nines - 5.9 calibre explosive shells
7 poison gas. From the symptoms it would appear to be chlorine or phosgene gas. The filling of the lungs with fluid had the same effects as when a person drowned
8 the early name for gas masks
9 a white chalky substance which can burn live tissue
10 the glass in the eyepieces of the gas masks
11 Owen probably meant flickering out like a candle or gurgling like water draining down a gutter, referring to the sounds in the throat of the choking man, or it might be a sound partly like stuttering and partly like gurgling
12 normally the regurgitated grass that cows chew; here a similar looking material was issuing from the soldier's mouth
13 high zest - idealistic enthusiasm, keenly believing in the rightness of the idea
14 keen
15 see note 1
| Posted on 2010-05-16 | by a guest
The opening stanza is characterised by language about 'fatigue': the soldiers 'marched asleep', they 'trudge', and 'limped on'. They are 'deaf', 'lame' and 'blind'; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects.
The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim 'guttering, choking, drowning'. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death.
The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong, representing both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen: 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most: the transformation in the face of the victim. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound reflects the agonised twisting of the gas victim.There is not a clearly defined structure to the poem, although Owen does make use of rhyme, mostly on alternate line endings.
The poem opens with a description of trench life and the conditions faced by the soldiers. Then comes the gas attack, and the poem offers a graphic description of the effects of such an attack.
1 DULCE ET DECORUM EST - the first words of a Latin saying (taken from an ode by Horace). The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. They mean "It is sweet and right." The full saying ends the poem: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - it is sweet and right to die for your country. In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country
2 rockets which were sent up to burn with a brilliant glare to light up men and other targets in the area between the front lines (See illustration, page 118 of Out in the Dark.)
3 a camp away from the front line where exhausted soldiers might rest for a few days, or longer
4 the noise made by the shells rushing through the air
5 outpaced, the soldiers have struggled beyond the reach of these shells which are now falling behind them as they struggle away from the scene of battle
6 Five-Nines - 5.9 calibre explosive shells
7 poison gas. From the symptoms it would appear to be chlorine or phosgene gas. The filling of the lungs with fluid had the same effects as when a person drowned
8 the early name for gas masks
9 a white chalky substance which can burn live tissue
10 the glass in the eyepieces of the gas masks
11 Owen probably meant flickering out like a candle or gurgling like water draining down a gutter, referring to the sounds in the throat of the choking man, or it might be a sound partly like stuttering and partly like gurgling
12 normally the regurgitated grass that cows chew; here a similar looking material was issuing from the soldier's mouth
13 high zest - idealistic enthusiasm, keenly believing in the rightness of the idea
14 keen
15 see note 1
| Posted on 2010-05-16 | by a guest
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thanks for your help, i appreciat it, some great points there :)
| Posted on 2010-05-12 | by a guest
thanks for your help, i appreciat it, some great points there :)
| Posted on 2010-05-12 | by a guest
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irony is in the title 'The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori'. wilfred owen criticised the government for sending young men to their own deaths, and the irony displays that it is sweet and noble to die for ones country, as it is not, war is not sweet, it is unbearable and horrendous as seen from owns view.
| Posted on 2010-05-07 | by a guest
irony is in the title 'The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori'. wilfred owen criticised the government for sending young men to their own deaths, and the irony displays that it is sweet and noble to die for ones country, as it is not, war is not sweet, it is unbearable and horrendous as seen from owns view.
| Posted on 2010-05-07 | by a guest
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World War one was a period of great social, political & economic upheaval. Countless lives were sacrificed in unsuccessful attempts to gain ground. Trench warfare was fought amidst conditions of horrendous odors, disease, vermin, lice & mud. In Wilfred’s Owen’s preface to his unpublished volume of poems he states, “This book is not about heroes…Nor is it about…glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power… My subject is War & the pity of War.” Wilfred Owen’s poetry focused on the realities of conflict & its emotional & psychological impact, rather than with any glorifies trappings. His first hand experiences have authority & allow his perceptions to express how the Great War dehumanized & brutalized young men forever.
Wilfred “Owen’s poetry is not about heroes, glory & honour of war”. Instead he has released the truth upon his perceptions, which captures the minds of his readers & allows them to see insight & truth.
The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, by Wilfred Owen, details the horrors of World War One from the point of view of the soldiers using fantastic and violent imagery. Owen uses this vivid imagery, selecting textured & negative diction to convey the traumatic events that he himself experienced. The soldier’s exhaustion has been effectively conveyed throughout this poem; mainly through the high use of imagery technique. In line seven, the young soldiers have been identified to be “drunk with fatigue.” This conjures up the image of men staggering uncoordinatedly, exhausted and deprived of much needed sleep. Their unkempt state heightens the readers understanding of the hardship they have endured for extended periods of time & hence during the opening line the soldier’s have been described as looking “like old beggars under sacks.” The word “beggars” is effective here, as it implicates a sense of weakness and helplessness. The connotations associated with beggars have also been mirrored in the soldier’s dirty and torn uniforms which are likened to look similar to the “sacks now clothing them.” This disheveled description is much the opposite to the traditional image of the smart young men marching off to war. Owen’s motive through creating these moving images for the readers has allowed them to understand how these young men were not treated as hero’s, but more rather as slaves destined to sacrifice for their country.
Throughout the second stanza, descriptive language has been used to depict the unexpected gas attack that now begins to drown a ‘flound’ring’ soldier. This represents both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen. This is understood through the alliterated phrase of; 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' during this phrase makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most. The transformation in the face of the victim has traumatized the on looker forever as he now dreams about ‘this helpless sight’, knowing that at the time there was nothing he could have done to help save the ‘innocent’ man. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound also contributes towards the reflective tone upon the agonised & twisting movements of the gas victim.
| Posted on 2010-05-06 | by a guest
World War one was a period of great social, political & economic upheaval. Countless lives were sacrificed in unsuccessful attempts to gain ground. Trench warfare was fought amidst conditions of horrendous odors, disease, vermin, lice & mud. In Wilfred’s Owen’s preface to his unpublished volume of poems he states, “This book is not about heroes…Nor is it about…glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power… My subject is War & the pity of War.” Wilfred Owen’s poetry focused on the realities of conflict & its emotional & psychological impact, rather than with any glorifies trappings. His first hand experiences have authority & allow his perceptions to express how the Great War dehumanized & brutalized young men forever.
Wilfred “Owen’s poetry is not about heroes, glory & honour of war”. Instead he has released the truth upon his perceptions, which captures the minds of his readers & allows them to see insight & truth.
The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, by Wilfred Owen, details the horrors of World War One from the point of view of the soldiers using fantastic and violent imagery. Owen uses this vivid imagery, selecting textured & negative diction to convey the traumatic events that he himself experienced. The soldier’s exhaustion has been effectively conveyed throughout this poem; mainly through the high use of imagery technique. In line seven, the young soldiers have been identified to be “drunk with fatigue.” This conjures up the image of men staggering uncoordinatedly, exhausted and deprived of much needed sleep. Their unkempt state heightens the readers understanding of the hardship they have endured for extended periods of time & hence during the opening line the soldier’s have been described as looking “like old beggars under sacks.” The word “beggars” is effective here, as it implicates a sense of weakness and helplessness. The connotations associated with beggars have also been mirrored in the soldier’s dirty and torn uniforms which are likened to look similar to the “sacks now clothing them.” This disheveled description is much the opposite to the traditional image of the smart young men marching off to war. Owen’s motive through creating these moving images for the readers has allowed them to understand how these young men were not treated as hero’s, but more rather as slaves destined to sacrifice for their country.
Throughout the second stanza, descriptive language has been used to depict the unexpected gas attack that now begins to drown a ‘flound’ring’ soldier. This represents both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen. This is understood through the alliterated phrase of; 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' during this phrase makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most. The transformation in the face of the victim has traumatized the on looker forever as he now dreams about ‘this helpless sight’, knowing that at the time there was nothing he could have done to help save the ‘innocent’ man. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound also contributes towards the reflective tone upon the agonised & twisting movements of the gas victim.
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What is the explination for the bit at the bottom about children, glorg and an old lie?
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What is the explination for the bit at the bottom about children, glorg and an old lie?
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This is my fave poem to write analysis for in tests. simply bcoz there is such alot to write about. you can talk about the imagery, tone the rythm( how the poem speeds up towards the end) Alliteration assonance and onomatapaeia (techniques) and the irony of the title, which is translated as - it is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland.
When this poem is studied alongside "base details" by siegfried sassoon the massege you can get from the 2 poems is the generals and army majors disregard for hman lives which meant nothing to them. The soldiers could simlpy be replaced by telling other 16 and 17 year lods how good and patriotic it was to fight for your country. Any one who studies Dulce et decorum should also study. Base details by siegfried sassoon and counqurers by henry treecs.
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This is my fave poem to write analysis for in tests. simply bcoz there is such alot to write about. you can talk about the imagery, tone the rythm( how the poem speeds up towards the end) Alliteration assonance and onomatapaeia (techniques) and the irony of the title, which is translated as - it is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland.
When this poem is studied alongside "base details" by siegfried sassoon the massege you can get from the 2 poems is the generals and army majors disregard for hman lives which meant nothing to them. The soldiers could simlpy be replaced by telling other 16 and 17 year lods how good and patriotic it was to fight for your country. Any one who studies Dulce et decorum should also study. Base details by siegfried sassoon and counqurers by henry treecs.
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This website is...pretty average...didnt really feel the vibes.
| Posted on 2010-04-29 | by a guest
This website is...pretty average...didnt really feel the vibes.
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This website is...pretty average...didnt really feel the vibes.
| Posted on 2010-04-29 | by a guest
This website is...pretty average...didnt really feel the vibes.
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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting". His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially "War, and the pity of War", and "the Poetry is in the pity".[1]
He was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre just a week before the war ended. In a moment of ghastly irony, the telegram from the War Office announcing his death was delivered to his mother's home as her town's church bells were ringing in celebration of the Armistice
| Posted on 2010-04-26 | by a guest
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works—most of which were published posthumously—include "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and "Strange Meeting". His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially "War, and the pity of War", and "the Poetry is in the pity".[1]
He was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre just a week before the war ended. In a moment of ghastly irony, the telegram from the War Office announcing his death was delivered to his mother's home as her town's church bells were ringing in celebration of the Armistice
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Language
The opening stanza is characterised by language about 'fatigue': the soldiers 'marched asleep', they 'trudge', and 'limped on'. They are 'deaf', 'lame' and 'blind'; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects.
The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim 'guttering, choking, drowning'. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death.
The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong, representing both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen: 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most: the transformation in the face of the victim. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound reflects the agonised twisting of the gas victim.
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Language
The opening stanza is characterised by language about 'fatigue': the soldiers 'marched asleep', they 'trudge', and 'limped on'. They are 'deaf', 'lame' and 'blind'; all rather pitiful language intended to reveal the reality of war and its effects.
The speaker describes a vision in a dream of a gas victim 'guttering, choking, drowning'. The listed verbs are associated with a lack of air and death.
The language used in the sections depicting the gas attack is strong, representing both the anguish of the victims of the gas attack as well as the effect on those haunted by what they have seen: 'watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face'. The repetition of the word 'face' makes it clear which element disturbs the speaker most: the transformation in the face of the victim. The use of alliteration on the 'w' sound reflects the agonised twisting of the gas victim.
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now now, im year 9 aswell and iv got to do this too! but instead of just copying people opinions i am trying my hardest to do it by myself but iv come on this website for help! so i am not cheating thank u very muchh! :) x
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now now, im year 9 aswell and iv got to do this too! but instead of just copying people opinions i am trying my hardest to do it by myself but iv come on this website for help! so i am not cheating thank u very muchh! :) x
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Screw you bitch! I read them, used a dictionary, AND interpreted it myself (very well might I add). People come to websites for different reasons; obviously you were on here!
| Posted on 2010-04-07 | by a guest
Screw you bitch! I read them, used a dictionary, AND interpreted it myself (very well might I add). People come to websites for different reasons; obviously you were on here!
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You are all intensely stupid - read the poem, use a dictionary, and interpret it yourself instead of cheating.
| Posted on 2010-03-31 | by a guest
You are all intensely stupid - read the poem, use a dictionary, and interpret it yourself instead of cheating.
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Does anyone know how, the way that Owen layed out the poem and structured it, makes the overall poem effective? I'm in Year 9 and for an essay I'm supposed to be analyzing it and sectioning my analysis into five key points: Introduction (completed), Language (completed, thanks to previous comments), Structure (finding difficult to analyze at the same level and tone as I have in Language and Introduction), Viewpoints (shouldn't be too difficult), and finally, my Conclusion. It's just Structure that I could really do with some help on... ???
| Posted on 2010-03-30 | by a guest
Does anyone know how, the way that Owen layed out the poem and structured it, makes the overall poem effective? I'm in Year 9 and for an essay I'm supposed to be analyzing it and sectioning my analysis into five key points: Introduction (completed), Language (completed, thanks to previous comments), Structure (finding difficult to analyze at the same level and tone as I have in Language and Introduction), Viewpoints (shouldn't be too difficult), and finally, my Conclusion. It's just Structure that I could really do with some help on... ???
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Dulce et Decorum est
Owen describes a group of young soldiers leaving the front line trenches after a spell of duty there. Owen attacks those who express the “old Lie” that it is sweet and decorous to die for one’s country. Owens bitter anger is clearly conveyed through his vivid imagery and disparaging tone.
Owen uses vivid imagery selecting textured, guttural diction to convey the traumatic events that he experiences. The soldiers exhaustion is effectively conveyd n the metaphor “drunk with fatigue.” This conjures up the image of men staggering uncoordinatedly, exhausted and deprived of sleep. Their unkempt dishevelled state heightens the readers understanding of the hardship they have endured. They are described as being “like old beggars under sacks.” The word “beggars” is effective as it implicates a sense of weakness and helplessness. The connotations associated with beggars are mirrored in the soldiers dirty and torn uniforms which are likened to “sacks.” The dishevelled description is the opposite to the image of the smart young men marching off to war. The men’s movement is described as a “trudge” also enhancing their apparent state of exhaustion. Their slow laborious pace is echoed in the slow moving pace of poem. The movements are again opposite to that of the marching, smart uniformed perception of soldiers. The pace of the [oem is slowed due to the large amounts of punctuation which is very effective. However in the second verse the ace quickens as the danger for the men increases. This effective change in speed reflects what is happening to the soles making the reader feel more involved. The monosyllabic commands of “Gas! GAS! Quick boys” is a mean so quickening the pace as the speakers voice becomes more panicked and urgent. The exclamation of Gas is effective due to the use of capitals and exclamation marks indicating the volume and urgency of the information ultimately making the command more emphatic. The literary device of repetition emphasising and highlighting it’s significance. As the soldiers react to this danger there is an “ecstacy of fumbling” as they reach for their gas masks. They are “clumsy” as they cannot seem to react quickly enough in their soporific state.
| Posted on 2010-03-19 | by a guest
Dulce et Decorum est
Owen describes a group of young soldiers leaving the front line trenches after a spell of duty there. Owen attacks those who express the “old Lie” that it is sweet and decorous to die for one’s country. Owens bitter anger is clearly conveyed through his vivid imagery and disparaging tone.
Owen uses vivid imagery selecting textured, guttural diction to convey the traumatic events that he experiences. The soldiers exhaustion is effectively conveyd n the metaphor “drunk with fatigue.” This conjures up the image of men staggering uncoordinatedly, exhausted and deprived of sleep. Their unkempt dishevelled state heightens the readers understanding of the hardship they have endured. They are described as being “like old beggars under sacks.” The word “beggars” is effective as it implicates a sense of weakness and helplessness. The connotations associated with beggars are mirrored in the soldiers dirty and torn uniforms which are likened to “sacks.” The dishevelled description is the opposite to the image of the smart young men marching off to war. The men’s movement is described as a “trudge” also enhancing their apparent state of exhaustion. Their slow laborious pace is echoed in the slow moving pace of poem. The movements are again opposite to that of the marching, smart uniformed perception of soldiers. The pace of the [oem is slowed due to the large amounts of punctuation which is very effective. However in the second verse the ace quickens as the danger for the men increases. This effective change in speed reflects what is happening to the soles making the reader feel more involved. The monosyllabic commands of “Gas! GAS! Quick boys” is a mean so quickening the pace as the speakers voice becomes more panicked and urgent. The exclamation of Gas is effective due to the use of capitals and exclamation marks indicating the volume and urgency of the information ultimately making the command more emphatic. The literary device of repetition emphasising and highlighting it’s significance. As the soldiers react to this danger there is an “ecstacy of fumbling” as they reach for their gas masks. They are “clumsy” as they cannot seem to react quickly enough in their soporific state.
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I am in year 10 and am finding great difficulty in finding a suitable analysis on Dulce et Decorum est.
I thank you all in helping me find very good stuff on this. and all of you who post silly little comments on your own smartness SHAME ON YOU. you are a disgrace.
but anyway thank you.
| Posted on 2010-03-11 | by a guest
I am in year 10 and am finding great difficulty in finding a suitable analysis on Dulce et Decorum est.
I thank you all in helping me find very good stuff on this. and all of you who post silly little comments on your own smartness SHAME ON YOU. you are a disgrace.
but anyway thank you.
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i am doing this essay/ oral presentation in english and we are doing it on ww1. i was just wondering if anyone new what then poem Dulce et Decrum est tells us about the experience of the gas attack???
| Posted on 2010-03-10 | by a guest
i am doing this essay/ oral presentation in english and we are doing it on ww1. i was just wondering if anyone new what then poem Dulce et Decrum est tells us about the experience of the gas attack???
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you guys are crazy!
STOP REPEATING THE WORK IT'S GETTING ANNOYING OR PRATICULARLY IRRITATING!
| Posted on 2010-03-08 | by a guest
you guys are crazy!
STOP REPEATING THE WORK IT'S GETTING ANNOYING OR PRATICULARLY IRRITATING!
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owen used a lot of poetic techniques wich convey the horrors of war.
| Posted on 2010-03-08 | by a guest
owen used a lot of poetic techniques wich convey the horrors of war.
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this is so sad sad sad
i think everyone has got the message too ho big deal innit.hmy god why do you peoplerepeat the same thing over and over agian
we dont care its getting boring
| Posted on 2010-03-07 | by a guest
this is so sad sad sad
i think everyone has got the message too ho big deal innit.hmy god why do you peoplerepeat the same thing over and over agian
we dont care its getting boring
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This poem is not only about how this soldier died in war,about how the soldier died walking AWAY from the war to a rest camp. It shows the irony of the death and 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'.
Also 'under a green sea' probably isn't to describe the toxic gas but it might have been the green filter of the gas mask.
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This poem is not only about how this soldier died in war,about how the soldier died walking AWAY from the war to a rest camp. It shows the irony of the death and 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori'.
Also 'under a green sea' probably isn't to describe the toxic gas but it might have been the green filter of the gas mask.
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The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, by Wilfred Owen, details the horrors of World War One from the point of view of the soldiers using fantastic and violent imagery. The third stanza contains excellent examples of Owen’s use of imagery. The unknown speaker internally shouts “Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!”, placing the reader in the moment. The exclamatory “Gas!” and then even more emphatic “GAS!” are more descriptive of the situation than if the speaker had elaborated intensively on the poison. The sudden jolt mimics the attack and the terror of the soldiers as they race to don the “clumsy helmets just in time. The phrases “Quick, boys!”, “ecstasy of fumbling”, and “clumsy helmets” recalls the young age of the inexperienced comrades, providing a stark contrast with the pitted landscape “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light.”
Throughout the poem, the speaker crescendos in sound, color, speed, and image. The third stanza begins with the jolt of panic and attempt to save their own lives. “Just in time” progresses to “But someone still was yelling out and stumbling/ Like a man in fire or lime.–” The crescendo is of a lone man representing the worst of the gas that the rest of the men escaped, and caught in a bright spotlight of imagery of “fire or lime.” The dash at the end of the line pulls us to the next lines – “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,/ As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.” – abruptly decrescendoing to a faded spotlight, “misty” and “thick.” The lime dulls to green and the man in fire becomes the muted, more euphemistic “drowning.” These images allow us to experience not the minute details of the scene, as a bystander would witness, but the fury and pain of fear and toxic air that precisely serve Owen’s purpose to warn us against the so-called “glories” of war marketed to their paradoxically juvenile audience.
| Posted on 2010-03-05 | by a guest
The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, by Wilfred Owen, details the horrors of World War One from the point of view of the soldiers using fantastic and violent imagery. The third stanza contains excellent examples of Owen’s use of imagery. The unknown speaker internally shouts “Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!”, placing the reader in the moment. The exclamatory “Gas!” and then even more emphatic “GAS!” are more descriptive of the situation than if the speaker had elaborated intensively on the poison. The sudden jolt mimics the attack and the terror of the soldiers as they race to don the “clumsy helmets just in time. The phrases “Quick, boys!”, “ecstasy of fumbling”, and “clumsy helmets” recalls the young age of the inexperienced comrades, providing a stark contrast with the pitted landscape “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light.”
Throughout the poem, the speaker crescendos in sound, color, speed, and image. The third stanza begins with the jolt of panic and attempt to save their own lives. “Just in time” progresses to “But someone still was yelling out and stumbling/ Like a man in fire or lime.–” The crescendo is of a lone man representing the worst of the gas that the rest of the men escaped, and caught in a bright spotlight of imagery of “fire or lime.” The dash at the end of the line pulls us to the next lines – “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,/ As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.” – abruptly decrescendoing to a faded spotlight, “misty” and “thick.” The lime dulls to green and the man in fire becomes the muted, more euphemistic “drowning.” These images allow us to experience not the minute details of the scene, as a bystander would witness, but the fury and pain of fear and toxic air that precisely serve Owen’s purpose to warn us against the so-called “glories” of war marketed to their paradoxically juvenile audience.
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This poem is describing the horrendous horros of war and how it changed those who participated 4eva!
| Posted on 2010-03-03 | by a guest
This poem is describing the horrendous horros of war and how it changed those who participated 4eva!
| Posted on 2010-03-03 | by a guest
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hello,
so,this is a ww1 poem is it?
people like to read it, don't they?
they like to analyse it.
They leave interesting notes and comments to help other people, don't they?
Who are they? You may ask. At this point I am pondering this question as well.
Who are you people? I ask, cautiously.
Are you rich, are you poor?
Are you tall or are you small?
Are you male, are you female?
Are you selfish or are generous?
I could ask these questions to myself
for many a day.
But in the end I ask myself, and you might ask as well
Who am I?
| Posted on 2010-03-01 | by a guest
hello,
so,this is a ww1 poem is it?
people like to read it, don't they?
they like to analyse it.
They leave interesting notes and comments to help other people, don't they?
Who are they? You may ask. At this point I am pondering this question as well.
Who are you people? I ask, cautiously.
Are you rich, are you poor?
Are you tall or are you small?
Are you male, are you female?
Are you selfish or are generous?
I could ask these questions to myself
for many a day.
But in the end I ask myself, and you might ask as well
Who am I?
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Omg i just want to thank the person who wrote out the whole summary of the poem you are a LEGEND!!!! i have a english test 2moro and i need to know this poem:( i hateeee english!!! p.s thxs again ily x
| Posted on 2010-02-23 | by a guest
Omg i just want to thank the person who wrote out the whole summary of the poem you are a LEGEND!!!! i have a english test 2moro and i need to know this poem:( i hateeee english!!! p.s thxs again ily x
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hi i was wonting to no if any one acan help me on what KNOCK-KNEED the technical term is??
| Posted on 2010-02-21 | by a guest
hi i was wonting to no if any one acan help me on what KNOCK-KNEED the technical term is??
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SO MANY MESSAGES REPEATED FOR OVER 35734189563908 TIMES!!!! COME ONE MAN! WE ALL ONLY NEED TO KNOW IT ONCE. WE'RE NOT THICk. Well, some of us maybe (tee-hee).
| Posted on 2010-02-21 | by a guest
SO MANY MESSAGES REPEATED FOR OVER 35734189563908 TIMES!!!! COME ONE MAN! WE ALL ONLY NEED TO KNOW IT ONCE. WE'RE NOT THICk. Well, some of us maybe (tee-hee).
| Posted on 2010-02-21 | by a guest
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The top couple of posts for this poem makes me want to run from this site. The text seems like a retarded 6 year old typed those responses. Good luck with year 9 English, dumbasses.
| Posted on 2010-02-18 | by a guest
The top couple of posts for this poem makes me want to run from this site. The text seems like a retarded 6 year old typed those responses. Good luck with year 9 English, dumbasses.
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i an studying it in year 9 engligsh and i think that this poem exposes a lot of truth about war and its great that wilfred would do such a thing. coz back then you were concidered a coward if you didnt join the army. so i think he was pretty brave to write it. and about the people compaining about other people posting like 10 time get over it!
| Posted on 2010-02-17 | by a guest
i an studying it in year 9 engligsh and i think that this poem exposes a lot of truth about war and its great that wilfred would do such a thing. coz back then you were concidered a coward if you didnt join the army. so i think he was pretty brave to write it. and about the people compaining about other people posting like 10 time get over it!
| Posted on 2010-02-17 | by a guest
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