DULCE ET DECORUM EST(1)
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares(2) we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest(3) began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4)
Of tired, outstripped(5) Five-Nines(6) that dropped behind.
Gas!(7) Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets(8) just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime(9) . . .
Dim, through the misty panes(10) and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,(11) choking, drowning. (16)
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, (19)
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(12)
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest(13)
To children ardent(14) for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.(15)
Wilfred Owen
8 October 1917 - March, 1918
1. What is the situation? Who is the speaker?
2. What images are especially concrete and vivid? Why?
3. What is the effect of placing 3 participles in a row at the end of line 16 that is bold.
4. How is the effect of colors green and white different than in "Calvary Crossing a Ford"?
5. Alliteration or assonance Line 19?
Sony Antron
ReplyDelete1. What is the situation? I think that the person is at war, and they are witnessing everything
Who is the speaker?
I believe that the speaker(s) are the people who have had to witness war
2. What images are especially concrete and vivid? Why?
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots(4)
Of tired, outstripped- I chose this because I feel like i could see the soilders marching, like zombies to their death.
3. What is the effect of placing 3 participles in a row at the end of line 16 that is bold.
It makes the image even more vivid in the readers mind.
4. How is the effect of colors green and white different than in "Calvary Crossing a Ford"?
I think instead of meaning something good and nice they mean something like greed or envy (green) and the white means finally surrendering, but i'm not sure...i'm still confused.
5. Alliteration or assonance Line 19?
assonance
Lioenl Aneudy Escobales Filippetti
ReplyDelete1) The situation is war, and the speaker has to be a soldier.
2)After line 6 and beyond all of that is very vivid. He's describing how that event is being showed on front of his eyes. How his partners were being killed.
3)The effect is to make the reader understand how emotionally affected was the protagonist of the poem, how he's experiencing the death.
4)In this poem those colors are used when someone is dying or when death was around the character.
5) Alliteration
Anigiselle Regis
ReplyDelete1. I thimk the situation might be some soldiers tring to get somewhere and one of them gets left behind because of some bomb and when the speaker, who is another soldier, checks to see who was drowning but doesn't do anything about it. He just sees him die for his country.
2. When he is describing the situation of the drowining man, it is a very clear image in my mind.
3. give more enfasis and color on the guys action to save his life
4. I guess that green is lika a color for hope, and white is like for peace...but I dont see it anywhere in the story, the element of hope is definitly not present
5. Alliteration
1- for me its like a kind of story by a time that war was in its climax and the narrator is expresing the setting or the background of the event. a soldier was the narrator.
ReplyDelete2-hunting flares, man marched asleep,all blind drunk and fatigue . they feel so real like in a real story the way that he write have a lot of detail.
3-showing that the situation was pretty bad , things are going wrong in that place
4-the eyes and the bomb
5- its is both
Jose ESpada