Dead Soldiers

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English

 

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Fernando T

 

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January 5, 2013

 

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University

 

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Throughout the poem you feel the utter exhaustion of the soldiers. The soldiers “marched asleep” (Owen 5) and were “Drunk with fatigue” (7) making them unable to truly appreciate their dire circumstances. They went into “An ecstasy of fumbling” (9) when the gas began to spray, “But someone was still yelling out and stumbling / And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime” (11, 12) and he was not quick enough with his gas mask...
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Owen’s use of sea and water imagery makes this scene very uncomfortable to witness. The soldier is “drowning” (14) and as the speaker watches helplessly “He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” (15) and the blood “Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs” (22). “Dulce et Decorum Est” uses powerful adjectives to paint the gruesome picture of war...
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