dulce et decorum est

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Keval Dabba 9T

Dolce et Decorum est

1) Write a list of the events that happen in the poem in chronological order.

  • Men coughing after being so tired.
  • Rockets which were sent up to burn with a brilliant glare to light up men and other targets in the area between the front lines
  • A camp away from the front line where exhausted soldiers might rest for a few days, or longer
  • The noise made by the shells rushing through the air 
  • Outpaced, the soldiers have struggled beyond the reach of these shells which are now falling behind them as they struggle away from the scene of battle 
  • Five-Nines  
  • Poison gas released
  • Everyone warning each other and wearing helmets
  • The filling of the lungs with fluid had the same effects as when a person drowned due to him not wearing his gas mask.
  • There is a substance which can burn live tissue
  • The glass in the eyepieces of the gas masks 
  • Owen probably meant flickering out like a candle or gurgling like water draining down a gutter, referring to the sounds in the throat of the choking man, or it might be a sound partly like stuttering and partly like gurgling 
  • A frothy material was issuing from the soldier's mouth 
  • He is then chucked in a wagon with the other dead bodies.
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2) In the first section, British soldiers are leaving the trenches after an exhausting span of duty. They stagger back to rest areas. The soldiers are compared to two surprising things. What are they?

In the first section Owen compares the soldiers to two surprising things. They are things such as hags and beggars. It is said in the text ‘like old beggars under sacks’ and ‘coughing like hags’.

3) Owen uses many words which are ugly in texture: pick out three of these and write a short explanation for each.

The three words that are in ugly ...

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