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World War one poetry - Anthem for Doomed Youth'
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WORLD WAR ONE POETRY "Bent doubled like old beggars under sacks" was the first simile in the poem, Owen said this to give the impression that they were all very tired and their posture was very slouched. They were walking like beggars 'under' sacks. This made out that the soldiers were bent down so much that the bags were on top of them and not hung on their backs. "Coughing like hags" gave me the very good image of what the soldiers' state was, Owen uses a lot of similes in this poem and uses them well to describe the whole feel of the setting. When the gas shells hit and the one man couldn't get his gas mask on in time he used a simile to describe the movement of the man who was dying. "Like a man in fire or lime" I imagined that the man was running around jerking...
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