It is a poem that is most commonly known because of the bitter truth that owen writes with.
Guttering choking drowning onomatopoeia.
Owen writes dulce et decorum est with many poetic techniques such as similes metaphors personification rhyming alliteration hyperbole onomatopoeia direct speech and irony.
Knock kneed in addition alliterates.
Dulce et decorum was a poem written by wilfred owen when he was in hospital.
Also the words guttering choking drowning are a form of onomatopoeia owen makes us use our senses to hear this man s suffering.
Knock kneed knock is an onomatopoeia.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch the white eyes writhing in his face.
You said he plunged at me guttering choking drowning.
Powerful images are used to describe this event like.
This line has great effect as it gives you the picture of someone drowning but you know there is only gas so the words choking and drowning show that it is the effect the gas is having on him and he is having a slow painful.
These examples of onomatopoeia are used to really emphasise the crucial pain that he is suffering and that he was making these revolting sounds.
Extended metaphor drowning choking on gas verbs onomatopoeia noun dreams adjective noun combination helpless sight what is happening to the man guttering choking and drowning.
The poet uses the adjective green this colour is often associated with evil this is used to make the readers think that everything that is going on is evil and wrong.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
Trying to breathe but he can t because of the gas.
The final stanza reeks of the poet s bitterness towards jesse pope and those like her who wrote cheerful positive poems and articles expounding the heroism and comradeship of war.
We cursed through sludge and towards our distant rest began to trudge h.
Due to the fact that he plunged past tense for those of you who do not understand basic english lexicon.
Because the trio of verbs are verbs hat end in ing it gives the sense that the action is in the present tense however rather evidently this is in the past tense.
Coughing also a premonition to the subsequent description of the loss of breath.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
To genevra by george gordon byron poems by claire newby imagery blue tenderness thy long fair hair it invokes sight and invokes the emotion of love because he loves the woman dearly and he lets you see the long fair hair and what he loves so much about her.