The author brilliantly uses extensive imagery throughout this poem to explain the terrible reality of war, especially trench warfare (Mazzeno). The number of deaths and injuries from trench warfare is immeasurable. Owen has been there and puts very descriptive imagery into the poem to show the reader what happens during war and make it have a powerful meaning. It is used through the entire poem starting with the first line; he describes the soldiers as “bent double like old beggars;”(Owen) they are crippled and warped by the war. Another is when the man is “drowning” in the gas. The reader gets an appalling illustration of a poor soldier not putting on his gas mask in time and dying from the poisonous gas. It also says “flound 'ring like a man in fire or lime,” (Owen) which means the man is being burned on his insides, dying very slowly and very painfully. Mustard gas is a horrid chemical that reacts with water in the lungs forming a burning chemical which destroys the lungs and is now banned from warfare (Mazzeno). This is a death in which no man wishes to
The author brilliantly uses extensive imagery throughout this poem to explain the terrible reality of war, especially trench warfare (Mazzeno). The number of deaths and injuries from trench warfare is immeasurable. Owen has been there and puts very descriptive imagery into the poem to show the reader what happens during war and make it have a powerful meaning. It is used through the entire poem starting with the first line; he describes the soldiers as “bent double like old beggars;”(Owen) they are crippled and warped by the war. Another is when the man is “drowning” in the gas. The reader gets an appalling illustration of a poor soldier not putting on his gas mask in time and dying from the poisonous gas. It also says “flound 'ring like a man in fire or lime,” (Owen) which means the man is being burned on his insides, dying very slowly and very painfully. Mustard gas is a horrid chemical that reacts with water in the lungs forming a burning chemical which destroys the lungs and is now banned from warfare (Mazzeno). This is a death in which no man wishes to