Dulce et decorum was a poem written by wilfred owen when he was in hospital.
Guttering choking drowning onomatopoeia.
Trying to breathe but he can t because of the gas.
Knock kneed knock is an onomatopoeia.
It is a poem that is most commonly known because of the bitter truth that owen writes with.
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.
These examples of onomatopoeia are used to really emphasise the crucial pain that he is suffering and that he was making these revolting sounds.
Also the words guttering choking drowning are a form of onomatopoeia owen makes us use our senses to hear this man s suffering.
The sounds guttering choking drowning are then used to highlight the point that the soldier truly is experiencing a ghastly death and he is in tremendous pain.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
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.
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.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
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.
Due to the fact that he plunged past tense for those of you who do not understand basic english lexicon.
You said he plunged at me guttering choking drowning.
Powerful images are used to describe this event like.
Owen writes dulce et decorum est with many poetic techniques such as similes metaphors personification rhyming alliteration hyperbole onomatopoeia direct speech and irony.
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.
Coughing also a premonition to the subsequent description of the loss of breath.
Knock kneed in addition alliterates.
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.
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.
