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Dulce Est Decorum Est

The men then walked away from the front line where the flares are described as "haunting". They remind the men of people dying as the flame of the flares brought them back to the battlefield where explosions took place and thousands of lives were taken in seconds. We imagine the soldiers as being tired and due a break from the ceaseless fighting as they stroll towards their distant rest because the passage states that the men where "deaf even to the hoots of gas-shells dropping softly behind" and, "Drunk with fatigue". This context metaphorically suggests the men are so tired that they cannot move or think straight. Their moral is very low and so the officers don't want the fresh recruits to see them so they have a traffic light system where the new recruits go up one tunnel to the front line while the wounded come down the other tunnel so their disturbing injuries can't be seem. They then have to walk about four miles until they reach their destination.
             Another way we notice the unpleasant nature of war is between lines five and six where it describes in more detail of the state of the men. "Men marched asleep", it may seem impossible but this showed to us just how knackered they were. Their bodies are more or less disabled with everything they have had to put up with. We then turn our attentions o the alarming situation of the deteriorating men, "all went lame, all blind". They don't march they limp. Their distant view is blocked by the life threatening fog, which hovers over the sky in front of them. "Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood shod" The poet is trying to let us know that the very boots worn by the men were getting stuck in the sinking mud causing the men to stagger on trying not to put their socks in it and balance themselves at the same time. They have to fight their way through the slushy, pasty land. .
             Another image that points a clear illustration in our minds of the horrendous nature of war is in verse two when the pace quickens up and the sentences become shorter with the use of more exclamation marks to suggest to us of the extreme panic in the men as they rush to put on their gas masks.


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