dulce et decorum est
... how its really tough work and gory for the soldiers who get badly wounded, ‘but limped on,blood-shod,All went lame, all blind’ This quote says about some of the living soldiers who are in pain.The stanzas are serious and in this poem are irregular because some are shorter than others. There is deffinately a rhyme scheme as most words at the end of every line rhyme.There isn’t a regular pattern and this poem is in sonnet form. We see quite a lot of imagery in this poem and in this first line we see use of a simile ‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks’ this simile is comparing the soldiers bending down to old beggars. Under sacks, I think this comparison is appropriate because they look similar. Personification is used when Wilfred says ‘disappointed shells’ this is quite good because we know by this that the bombs didn’t blow up, therefore they are ‘disappointed’. ‘Hanging face’ is a metaphor used in the fourth stanza, this works well with the poem because it means that the soldier is dying. We see the poem come alive...