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Find quotes from the poem and paste them below. Remember to comment on the effect created.

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Imagery:  Similes? Metaphors Personification?
Onomatopoeia?
Sibilance? Alliteration?

Word choice? adjectives? Verbs? Meaning? Rhetorical Questions? Pronouns?
Tenses?
Pronoun?

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Can you find out what the rhythmic structure is of this poem?What is the rhyming scheme?

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Can you find out what the rhythmic structure is of this poem?What is the rhyming scheme?

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Why is the last line of each stanza shorter?

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What is the poem about? What is Owen's message?

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What is the poem about? What is Owen's message?

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How does the speaker feel?Why does the speaker feel like this?Can you identify a quotation to support this?

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How does the speaker feel?Why does the speaker feel like this?Can you identify a quotation to support this?

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Think about physical pain / mental pain/ hallucinations?
Attitudes to war?
Thoughts about home?

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The phrase “our brains ache”  can relate to ‘when will this end’, thinking about their past , pain from the cold
Personification= “merciless iced east winds” is the brutal enemy out to kill.
Sibilance= ‘Silent, Sentries” negative feeling.

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“But nothing happens” short refrain for effect, repeated 4 times. Regardless of the situation nothing happens.

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'Our' = pronoun which suggests camaraderie. All are in the same position.

Ellipses (...) used twice in this stanza to emphasis how long this time is dragging on for.

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Cliffhanger makes us wonder what is t come next

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The word ‘our’ refers to the camaraderie of the soldiers

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This could link to them hearing something coming closer. There is also 2 different senses in this quote. This could emphasise the nervousness of the men as they could be panicking, using the senses they can to survive. Theses sounds are also their reality.

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Clouds sag stormy ' Alliteration - what's the effect?

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Alliteration 'sag stormy' create some the effect of sadness

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The sibilance in the first line could representative of
the sound made by bullets short by the enemy which in this poem is the weather. 'Sudden successive..'

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Collective pronoun
‘We cringe in holes’. Sense of togetherness. The verb 'cringe' suggests that they are weak and defenseless. There is also a sense of claustrophobia - there is no way out.

'Snow-dazed' suggests that the soldiers are barely coherent. This phrase is set out on it's own to emphasise how badly the elements are affecting them.

'We drowse, sun- dozed' suggests that rather than contemplate their deaths, their thoughts return to home.

'blossoms' is  symbolic of rebirth and this image is juxtaposed with the fear and bleakness of trench warfare.

'blackbird fusses' suggest that they hallucinating due to hypothermia

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8 stanzas of five lines each = the trauma and struggling the soldiers go through.

The last line of each stanza is shorter and indented which disrupts the rhythmic structure

Hexameters – (verse with 6 beats per line) emphasises the pointlessness of what is going on.

ABBA scheme – regularity emphasises the unchanging nature of daily life in the trenches

Half rhymes – unsettle the reader (Knive us/ nervous)

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Stanza 5

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Religious connotations and suggests they are losing hope and faith in God.

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‘The doors closed’ could suggest two meanings. Literally it could mean that they are locked in and there is no way out. But analytically it could imply in their eyes those doors will always be closed and they will be like that forever and they do not expect to ever go home again.

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Dark-red jewels this could represent blood/death/anger. Could also suggest frozen blood in snow

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'slowly our ghosts...' stresses the time it is taking for anything to happen. Assonance in the repeated 'oh' sound emphasizes how slowly time is going.

'ghosts' could suggest that they are not the men they once were. The war has affected them so thoroughly that the effects are irrevocable Alternatively, it could also suggest that they're close to dying or have already died.

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“Shrivelling many hands, puckering foreheads crisp” it is so cold that their faces are shrivelling up

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“His frost will fasten on this mud and us” This personification is used to make the reader think that God isn’t treating them well. The weather is threatening and some of them will die from exposure to the elements.

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The words ‘melancholy’ and ‘misery’ represent a gloomy state of mind which the soiers are going through, they are also going through a mental and/or emotional distress because of the wether.
The effect of ‘misery’ is showing the extreme unhappiness which they are feeling that it is a new day, a new day of war and dealing with the wether.
The quote ‘Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army’ this creates a direct comparison between the wether and the enemy.
Line two gives the impression that the only thing they know now is that ‘war lasts, rain socks, and could sag stormy.

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“All their eyes are ice” a metaphor could represent how it’s so cold they feel like they can’t see and it could also represent death.

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“The burying party” people are being buried because the cold killed them

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“Shaking grasp” could suggest they’re freezing or they’re in shock