Story arc: There’s 3 characters that develop in a beginning, a problem and somewhat of an end.

1st stanza is mostly dialogue where the speaker is reprimanding a soldier because he was dirty.

2nd Stanza: Speaker talks about punishments that other soldiers have served. Soldier told the speaker the stain was blood and not dirt.

3rd Stanza: Discussion progresses through the third stanza where the reprimanded soldier explains how he got the stain and how he almost died. Soldiers question the morality of other soldiers instead of prioritizing his image no matter his condition.

    

1st stanza: contains a lot of oxymoron- darkness with singing. They’re being led to death yet they’re singing.

2nd Stanza: Contains foreshadowing- the complete use of sadness and darkness are used to tell us that they are going to die.

3rd Stanza: Comparison- They’re uncomfortable with the truth and/or don’t want to mention it.

4th Stanza: Alliteration- “A few, too little soldiers to make noise”. Also contains metaphor- they don’t even remember their homes.

external connection:
anthem for doomed youth connects to owens thoughts that the war was overly romanticized and that people were not dying for glory but for wars sake.

Themes: The horror and pity of war

contetx:  at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh in 1917.

Structure: 2 Stanzas

1st Stanza: Focuses on the soldiers themselves, they suffer while saying goodbye and in the war itself. 

2nd Stanza: Focuses more on the families left behind and how they had to say goodbye to the soldiers that died at war

1st Stanza: A group of soldiers talking about 5 things that could happen to either one of them when they go out.

2nd Stanza: After the break which cuts from the night to the next day when they go out, it says what happened to each soldier from the night before and how the narrator is grateful that nothing really bad happened to him compared to his friend “Jimmy”

Structural devices: Consonance (1st line "how" and "show"), Assonance (3rd line, e' seen some scrappin')
Rhythm (7th and 8th line, "One of us got the knock-out blown to chops, One lad was hurt like losin' both his props").

Themes:deglorifying death on the battlefield. WO's traumas.

Language: it uses modern english and latin, and it also uses diction. We can see this in the poem's title "Dulce et decorum est" which means It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But the poem talks about the reality of war which in fact was horrible.

Structure: 4 stanzas

1st and 2nd Stanzas: Description of what seems like an experience

3rd Stanza: reveals that it was a dream, break between the first two and the 4 stanza

As stated before it shares the motif of Dreams with Dulce Et Decorum Est.

External connections:
 The speaker says they don't want to remember what happened, which can connect with Owen's shellshock and how he was traumatized with the war.

Context:
This poem was also written in 1917. The war ended in 1918, so when Owen wrote this poem the different countries were in constant fight. Some entering the war and other retiring and giving up. By being under attack constantly Owen wrote this poems, referring to a group of soldiers that tried helping the sentry while fighting.
Themes: Death and Violence of war.

Structure: 3 Stanzas

1st Stanza: Contains rhymes, alliteration and imagery to describe and tell you what he was living. Mainly imagery for people to imagine and feel what he had.

2nd Stanza: Contains rhymes to give context to the poem, there is also the presence of simile to describe and tell things giving the poem more action.

3rd Stanza: Also uses rhyme to explain and give more sense to know what’s happening in the poem. The presence of visual imagery also gave context to understand what was happening and how violent and depressive it felt.
Sound divices: Alliteration: “And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell”, “And choked the steps too thick with clay to climb. What murk of air remained stank old, and sour”, “mud in ruck on ruck” Onomatopeya: “With fumes of whizz-bags”, “And thud! Flump! Thud! Down the steep steps came thumping”

Language: 
In this poem the poet used negative diction. This was used describe the situation the chracters are suffering. The negative diction is expressed on the words:"dense din" "died" etc...

1st Stanza: Speaks in a positive diction about a soldier who they are trying to revive by moving him to the sun that had awoken the soldier so many times before at war.

2nd Stanza: Speaks in negative diction about the soldier that they couldn’t bring back and who was now dead.

1st Stanza: Narrator uses  symbolism to describe how after so  many days of hard work he went to sleep

2nd Stanza: Uses imagery to describe how while in his sleep he died

3rd Stanza: Narrator gives a very vivid description on how the soldiers blood spills out of his body

4th Stanza: In this last stanza the narrator describes how the dead soldier is in a better place which in a way is technically anything is better than being in alive in that moment.

Context:
written in the early's 1917. The armies set their positions to prevent enemy attack. It was not the period of most fights, but there were plenty, since the United States entered the War becoming a powerful country. Many soldiers got hurt and unfortunately one of they was Owen, since the poem expresses his emotions in the hospital.

Sound Devices:
Rhyme:  “work and waking”, “heaved a quaking”, “by the shaking”, Repetition: “He sleeps. He sleeps”,and “Who knows? Who hopes? Who troubles?” Alliteration: “more and more with the low mould”

Language: 

In this poem the poet uses negative and deep diction to describe how the soldiers are getting asleep, which means that they are dying. He uses the words: death, sleeping, slow, deeper, calm.  

1st stanza: a soldier is regaining consciousness therefore he is becoming aware of his surroundings  so he realizes that he is no longer in the battlefield.

2nd stanza: the soldier starts losing consciousness and he thinks he is dying so he starts to panic while losing all hope of surviving. 

Sound Devices: 
Rhyme: “drink of water” “crimson slaughter”, end line rhyme. Repetition: “Cold; cold; he's cold; and yet so hot:” and “all right, all right” 

Language: This poem makes use of dialogue. It also uses a negative idction as it uses the word slaugter, bewilders etc...

2nd Stanza: Talks about life pre-war in an almost cyclical way when it talks about the seasons of the year to symbolize the way that life was and everything that they hope to become once again.

Sound divices:
- End line rhyme: “whirled-furled-hurld” “rome-home”, “need-seed”

Language:
In this poem we can see the use of contrasting language and negative diction. For example we can see it starts with the words "War broke". And it tells that 1914 was the winter of the world contrasting the classical tradition everybody knew.

The motif of grief in The Last Laugh is the cries of the soldiers who are dying.

In The Last Laugh the motif of youthfulness is seen when the dying son calls the name of his father and mother, probably too young to have to leave them. 

External Connections: This poem talks about 3 dying soldiers and all, before dying, had a moment where they hallucinated and saw or heard what they most wanted. Whether this is a connection to death's last laugh meaning that death won; or if it is a connection to a moment of relief that the soldiers felt is unknown. But again, this poem talks about the undeniable and inescapable death at war.
Context: This poem, as the conscious poem were written on 1918. during this year the World War I Ended With the Treaty of Versailles. Because of a flu going arround, at Camp Devens in Massachusetts, a third of the 15,000 people at the camp became infected, and 800 died.
Themes: Personification of war, and Lost of belief.
Structure: 3 Stanzas: All 3 stanzas talk about 3 different dying soldiers. They all follow roughly the same pattern and in each stanza, weapons still make sounds to mock the fallen men who, in their last moments, had hallucinated what they were hoping to go back to.

Language: The poem uses realistic diction, to show the specific scenes in a real way, to make an image of what is happening. He uses descriptive words and words that makes the audience imagine the specific situation where the soldiers are fighting and dying.

Sound devices: Direct speech: ‘O Jesus Christ! I’m hit,’ ‘O Mother,—mother,—Dad!’ ‘My Love!’ Onomatopoeia: “ Machine-guns chuckled—Tut-tut! Tut-tut!” “ And the Big Gun guffawed.” “And the splinters spat, and tittered” “ And the Bayonets’ long teeth grinned;   Rabbles of Shells hooted and groaned;  And the Gas hissed.” “The Bullets chirped”  Repetition: “In vain, vain, vain!” “Tut-tut! Tut-tut!”