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At the top of the second stanza of "Dulce Et Decorum Est" the first two words are: "Gas! GAS!" Wilfred Owen did not write those words simply for the visual impact on the page. His purpose seems to be wanting to tell us that maybe the first cry was the instant, almost lazy reaction to something he had seen a hundred times before, but that second cry was one that was a real warning. It doesn't seem as if these two words were to be read in the same way. The "quick, boys!" contrasts with the slowness of action that the verbs create in the second stanza i.e. "fumbling", "stumbling", "flound'ring" and "drowning". A great example of using punctuation for texture is the ellipses in line 12, which shows us that this image trails off, and that fragment of extension gives a sense of the rhythm and the mood of the...

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