als ts For this DB, consider Owen's poem, Dulce et Decorum Est. Arguably one of the...

 

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als ts For this DB, consider Owen's poem, Dulce et Decorum Est. Arguably one of the most famous war poems in the Western world, the poem captures the exhaustion, fear, horror, and incessant human will to survive. Answer the following questions in paragraph form. Each answer should be 150-400 words. There are no formatting requirements for this assignment. 1. What is the subject of the poem? Discuss the topics the poem touches on. 2. Who is the speaker in the poem? Describe the poem's tone (the speaker's attitude toward the subject). Cite specific details that establish the identity of the speaker and the tone of the poem. 3. Discuss the speaker's description of the soldiers in the first stanza. What examples of figurative language (e.g., metaphors and similes) can you find, and how do they contribute to this description? 4. Why do the soldiers scramble to put their masks on, and what happens to one soldier who isn't fast enough? How does the speaker convey the horror of this fate? Discuss the effect of the following elements of this description: • the expression "ecstasy of fumbling" (line 9) the similes in lines 12-14 • the word guttering in line 16 • the word flung in line 18 • other instances of figurative language in the last stanza 5. How is the speaker affected by what he has witnessed? 6. Why does the speaker say "you would not tell with such high zest[...]/The old Lie" (lines 25-27)? Explain the extended conditional statement in lines 17-28. How do these lines relate to audience and purpose? What exactly is the lie-why is lie capitalized, and why is it expressed in Latin? Why is it told with "high zest" (line 25), and why are children deceived by it? als ts For this DB, consider Owen's poem, Dulce et Decorum Est. Arguably one of the most famous war poems in the Western world, the poem captures the exhaustion, fear, horror, and incessant human will to survive. Answer the following questions in paragraph form. Each answer should be 150-400 words. There are no formatting requirements for this assignment. 1. What is the subject of the poem? Discuss the topics the poem touches on. 2. Who is the speaker in the poem? Describe the poem's tone (the speaker's attitude toward the subject). Cite specific details that establish the identity of the speaker and the tone of the poem. 3. Discuss the speaker's description of the soldiers in the first stanza. What examples of figurative language (e.g., metaphors and similes) can you find, and how do they contribute to this description? 4. Why do the soldiers scramble to put their masks on, and what happens to one soldier who isn't fast enough? How does the speaker convey the horror of this fate? Discuss the effect of the following elements of this description: • the expression "ecstasy of fumbling" (line 9) the similes in lines 12-14 • the word guttering in line 16 • the word flung in line 18 • other instances of figurative language in the last stanza 5. How is the speaker affected by what he has witnessed? 6. Why does the speaker say "you would not tell with such high zest[...]/The old Lie" (lines 25-27)? Explain the extended conditional statement in lines 17-28. How do these lines relate to audience and purpose? What exactly is the lie-why is lie capitalized, and why is it expressed in Latin? Why is it told with "high zest" (line 25), and why are children deceived by it?

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