We cursed through sludge and towards our distant rest began to trudge h.
Guttering choking drowning onomatopoeia.
Owen writes dulce et decorum est with many poetic techniques such as similes metaphors personification rhyming alliteration hyperbole onomatopoeia direct speech and irony.
As if we were there.
Due to the fact that he plunged past tense for those of you who do not understand basic english lexicon.
Trying to breathe but he can t because of the gas.
You said he plunged at me guttering choking drowning.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
Powerful images are used to describe this event like.
The poet uses the adjective green this colour is often associated with evil this is used to make the readers think that everything that is going on is evil and wrong.
The verbs carry the drowning metaphor through in plunges guttering choking drowning making the reader as unable to escape the imagery as the writer is.
Coughing also a premonition to the subsequent description of the loss of breath.
Knock kneed in addition alliterates.
This line has great effect as it gives you the picture of someone drowning but you know there is only gas so the words choking and drowning show that it is the effect the gas is having on him and he is having a slow painful.
It is a poem that is most commonly known because of the bitter truth that owen writes with.
Knock kneed knock is an onomatopoeia.
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.
Also the words guttering choking drowning are a form of onomatopoeia owen makes us use our senses to hear this man s suffering.
Extended metaphor drowning choking on gas verbs onomatopoeia noun dreams adjective noun combination helpless sight what is happening to the man guttering choking and drowning.
The sounds guttering choking drowning are then used to highlight the point that the soldier truly is experiencing a ghastly death and he is in tremendous pain.
The final stanza reeks of the poet s bitterness towards jesse pope and those like her who wrote cheerful positive poems and articles expounding the heroism and comradeship of war.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
These examples of onomatopoeia are used to really emphasise the crucial pain that he is suffering and that he was making these revolting sounds.
