He uses "blood-shod" to show that the soldier's feet were caked in blood, due to them having lost their boots from being trapped in the mud - walking through the trenches bare footed across sharp stones, grit and dead bodies, and also to show how weak their feet were with all the walking they had to do through the trenches. Owen uses - "Cursed through sludge" to show how frustrated they were walking through the sludge. ... As the flares lit up the sky, the flares marked the position of dead or injured soldiers. ... We can feel the mans pain and agony as his flesh is burning. ... O...

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In the poem, "After Apple-Picking," by Robert Frost, a man has been picking apples all day on a ladder. ... The man in the poem says with regret that he left some apples, meaning that many opportunities in his life have been passed up, but he also dreams of the many apples he did pick. ... The man has probably been waiting all summer for this crop of apples, although now that they are ripe and ready he realizes just how much work will need to be done. ... You can see that he enjoys walking in the night because he has done it so much. ... Death is symbolic of death, and the man in th...

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The husband repeats, "A man can't speak of his own child that's dead," (74). He is walking upon eggshells around his wife, smothering his own grief and being forces to wade in all of it rather than move on. ...

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• Grade Level: High School