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Compare the ways on which two poems from this section convey powerful pictures of life in the trenches - ‘The Dug-Out’ and ‘Breakfast’.
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Compare the ways on which two poems from this section convey powerful pictures of life in the trenches. By Oliver Li Both of the poems 'The Dug-Out' and 'Breakfast' try to convey a message that is the futility and horror of the war. 'The Dug-Out' shows the horror of the war by accentuating the fear of death in the poem. However, 'Breakfast' transfers the meaning of triviality by describing the hardship in the breakfast time in the trenches. 'The Dug-Out' is written as a single stanza with simple structure and sentence. The poet has chosen this structure to convey striking imagery and therefore to reflect the reality of the war. The poem begins with the adverb 'why' to intrigue the reader and also creates a sense of uneasiness with words 'ungainly huddled'. The poet chooses to use the metaphor of a candle to portray the solder's dying as the burning out of a...
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