How might your reading of the poem change if the poet had included some contextual details about World War I – about the enemy or “freedom” or “protecting the motherland,” for example? How do these metaphors and similes shape your sense of the soldiers’ experience of war? Does it contrast to other famous poems you’ve read about war – “ In Flanders Fields,” for instance? Which is the most remarkable to you? What makes it stand out? Read the poem and circle every metaphor or simile you see. This poem is chock full of similes and metaphors. To children ardent for some desperate glory, My friend, you would not tell with such high zest Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, . If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodĬome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin If in some smothering dreams, you too could paceĪnd watch the white eyes writhing in his face, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight, ĭim through the misty panes and thick green light,Īs under a green sea, I saw him drowning. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumblingīut someone still was yelling out and stumblingĪnd flound’ring like a man in fire or lime. All went lame all blind ĭrunk with fatigue deaf even to the hoots Many had lost their boots,īut limped on, blood-shod.
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,Īnd towards our distant rest began to trudge. Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
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