Owen describes the unsightly view of the soldier's death with a variety of metaphors and similes while Tennyson portrays a soldier's death as a glorifying and honourable event that would be perpetually celebrated. Owen's poem conveys the distress of witnessing a soldier's death with tremendous details, "And watch the white eyes writhing in his eyes, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues...
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Owen's poem conveys the distress of witnessing a soldier's death with tremendous details, "And watch the white eyes writhing in his eyes, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin; If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues...
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Compare and Contrast the way Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen approach the subject of war Now the poem concentrates on the utter horror that overcomes him. The gas penetrates his lungs and disintegrates them so that his death is a terrible spectacle...	3 / 770
Dead Soldiers	3 / 700
Dulce Et Decorum and The Road to Nijmegen The images used in The Road show a sense of hope the soldier has by thinking of his loved one. The effect in this poem is on both the soldier along with the citizens of the battle zone...	3 / 602
"Dulce Et Decorum Est"&Amp; "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" - Poem Comparing And Contrasting Essay Owen describes the unsightly view of the soldier's death with a variety of metaphors and similes while Tennyson portrays a soldier's death as a glorifying and honourable event that would be perpetually celebrated...	4 / 950
Simsim	1 / 215
Commentary on Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est"	2 / 495
Dulce Et Decorum Est - Critical Response The second metaphor which I will explore is: "An ecstasy of fumbling" on line one of the second stanza. This metaphor is significant as it describes the quick manner in which the soldiers will have been trying to put their masks on...	4 / 1082