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Dulce Et Decorum Est - Coggle Diagram
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Language
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Tenses
Present - "fumbling" , "'drowning"
Past - Marched, turned, went
Conditional "If you could, you would not", "If in some smothering dreams"
Use of language captures horror of war , urgency of situation
Structure
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Rhyming Scheme
ABABCDCD rhyme scheme
Written in iambic pentameter with exception
Use of enjambment to create sense of urgency for the reader to read next line " deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind"
Rythm of poem changes with use of varied rhyming & enjambement and is reflective of the instability, harsh imagery and conditions.
Tone
Sombre, depressing, ironic, horrific, bitter, personal
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Theme
War
Duty - What is your duty as a citizen, soldier, man ?
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Horrors of war - choking, imping, dying- for what ?
Poetic Techniques
Examples
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Similie
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"Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud"
Assonance
"Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues"
Alliteration
"Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge"
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Imagery
GAS, under a green sea, beggars, hags, devils, blood-shod
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"His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin"
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Onomatopoeia
Gargling,guttering,choking,hoot