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Anthem - Owen Dehumanizes the soldiers (Line 1)
“Die as cattle?”
Anthem - Harsh sounds of war ,consonance (Line 2)
“Stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle”
Anthem - Long dragging days/ Leaders turning a blind eye (Line 14)
“Each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
Dulce - Soldiers are tired, dirty and sick, Heroic myth (Line 1)
“Old beggars under sacks” and “coughing like hags”
Dulce - Metaphor for distant death (Line 4)
“Distant rest”
Dulce - Sounds of suffering (Line 16)
“Guttering, choking, drowning”
S.I.W - Fathers expectations links to leaders blindly sending youth to war knowing the consequences.
“Father would sooner see him dead than in disgrace,”
S.I.W - Hunger for change, wants to leave the war
“Once an hour a bullet missed its aim and misses teased the hunger of his brain”
S.I.W - Can’t get out of war, stuck
“Inescapable thrall”
Mental- lifeless people drooping
“drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish”
S.I.W - Romantic connection to suicide
“The muzzle his teeth had kissed”
Mental - Waiting for death
“Why sit they here in twilight?”
Mental- Endless pain
“Stoke on stroke of pain”
“Slow panic”
Mental- Walking dead
“set-smiling corpses”
Disabled- waiting for death metaphor
“waiting for dark”
Disabled- Alienated from society
“ Like some queer disease”
Disabled - heroic myth
“he’d look a god in kilts”
Disabled - not respected when he returns
“Some cheered him home, but as crowds cheer Goal”
Parable - what bible verse
Genesis 22: 1-19
Parable - militaristic language
“parapets and trenches”
“fire and iron”
parable- offering of pride to let soldiers live
“Ram of pride instead”
