Wilfred Owen
...ved. This also makes us experience the losses that they personally faced such as the ways that he explained that ‘gas shells’ dropped softly behind and the way that they became ‘deaf’ to the “hoots”, this emphasises the deafness of the soldiers during and after the war. During the second verse of “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Owen explains the way that they had to make decisions quickly and the way that he uses assonance and its repetitiveness make it clearer for the reader to understand the way that they’re personally suffering and the tiredness that they faced which appears here by the first line of this verse by saying “an ecstasy of fumbling”, this shows us the way that they couldn’t move quick enough because of the tiredness and the decisions that they had to make quickly when there was “Gas! Gas! Quick boys” and the way that they fit the “clumsy helmets” in time builds on up of the fact that they were worn-out. Owen also explains the way how the soldier burns when being touched by the “thick green light”, which is the poisonous, burning gas. Owen also describes the thick, opaque gas as a ‘green sea’. On the separate 2 lines following the second verse, Owen describes his dreams which are constantly reminding him of the war and cannot forget about it and he dramatically wonders what could’ve been done such as when saying “before my helpless site”, he knew that nothing could be done because it was too late to act. He describes the movement of his friend which is choking and plunging to get his huge gas mask on which he’s having difficulty with and the burning sensation of skin being put on fire because of the gas and the way that it sticks in the throat while breathing it. Owen uses onomatopoeic methods to make things seem clearer such as the actions that the suffocating soldier took and the way that he describes his dreams as “smothering dreams” (choking dreams). Throughout the whole third verse, Owen describes the ways that war affected them and the way that it had impacted on their lives and verbally attack the people who say that it is fitting and sweet. It is best known that during war many seemed to die so the numbers were outrageously large. So the number of people dieing was not a thing they could control and they just had to cope with the losses and soon they had become immune to death by saying “flung him”, as if they’re talking to him as an object not a human being. He further explained the way that his face was “writhing” from the pain and suffering. In the 3rd verse Owen describes dieing by gas as “Obscene as cancer” which by the thinking of it is hideous and gruesome. He also describes his friend’s face as a “devil’s sick of sin”, which is a comparison to a gruesome, ugly face. This can ...