'Beach Burial' by Kenneth Slessor is a poem that illustrates all the poet’s grief for the sailors who died in the great sea battle in the North African Campaign during World War II. The poet thinks that war is not worth it because in the end you are being dehumanised. Slessor uses the technique of imagery in the example ‘To pluck them from the shallows and bury them in the burrows’ as a way of showing how they are being dehumanised and unvalued. The word ‘pluck’ is used to describe how these soldiers are being picked up and thrown around as if they are objects. In conclusion, Slessor conveys his grief in the technique imagery by using words to describe the soldiers as if they were never human. Words like ‘to pluck them from the shallows and
