They simply watch the snow fall and the wind blow as they begin to accept their fate. ... We can see that the men don't doubt God's existence or God's creation. ... This is why he seems to blame God. ... This is "All their eyes are ice". Owen is obviously comparing the men's eyes t...
There is also the use of alliteration: flights', flowing flakes that flock' and we watch wandering the wind', so that all of the sounds culminate to produce a flurry of activity. ... For God's invincible spring our love is made afraid; Therefore, not loath, we lie out here, therefore were born, For love of God seems dying. ... However, the ironic ambiguity of last line, 'for love of God is dying, is Owen's way of questioning the nature of that love of God', which is supposed to inspire their civilization and ju...
The speaker then challenges the reader to dream of having to pace behind the wagon where they have laid their fellow soldier and hear the sounds the body makes due to the effects of gas on the body: . . . watch the white eyes writhing in his face, 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 cores on innocent tongues,- (19-24) Owen's language in the forth and final stanzas, paints a picture that is so vivid that enabl...
