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1
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Poet?

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Wilfred Owen

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About?

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Marching away from battle
Attacked with chlorine gas
He sees a man die and it haunts his dreams

3
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Context?

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Chlorine gas was a weapon used by both sides in the war, it caused breathing difficulties and eventually death

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Form:

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Alternate (ABAB) rhyme scheme shows relentless suffering

Irregular stanza length shows he unpredictability of war

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Structure:

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Serious Tone raises the horrors of war and how they still haunt him to this day
At the end he adapts an ironic tone

6
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Q - Start of poem, loss of identity/masculinity

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‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags,’

7
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Q - exhaustion and inability to function

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‘drunk with fatigue’

8
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Q - Repetition and change of pace

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‘Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!’

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Q - panic

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‘An ecstasy of fumbling’

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Q - Extremely graphic imagery

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‘froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer’

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Q - Last line, irony

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‘The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’

Capital L for lie shows the immensity of the lie

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Q - Po3, verbs inescapable

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‘He plunges at me guttering, chocking, drowning’