1) situate poet and poem historically in general and specific sense (setting, which war)
-POET
àBritish soldier serving in WWI in trenches, front line
àwas enlisted as a soldier in WWI
àsome poets interested in the glory of war but Owen interested in horror
àOwen s view: he is like a camera or movie; documenting rather than suggesting new systems to problems
à
-POEM:
àpoems bring home the brutality of war and the continuity of human suffering
àfeelings of futility and outrage at the suffering cause by WWI
àdiscusses a specific incident (gas attack remembered by those who survived) but uses it to embrace the wider atrocities of war
2) at least 4 poetic devices
-DICTION:
guttering, choking, drowning; show how the man is suffering as well as the terrible pain he is in, something that humans should not have to endure
àwrithing, forth-corrupted say how the man is being tormented
àblood-shod: shows how the troops have been on their feet for days never......
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