This week I'm using the second stanza from Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est.
Gas! GAS! Quick boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim though the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
First of all, I just love this poem. I like how it's in first and second person, so it's like you're actually there, in the war getting gassed. I like how the author is so honest, he doesn't make war seem fun and heroic, he tells you the cold hard truth. And how he makes it seem as the gas is a sea, green and deep, makes it more realistic, like you are there watching a man drown in gas. I just think this poem well is written, and beautiful.
I underlined the appositive phrases.
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Gas! GAS! Quick boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim though the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
First of all, I just love this poem. I like how it's in first and second person, so it's like you're actually there, in the war getting gassed. I like how the author is so honest, he doesn't make war seem fun and heroic, he tells you the cold hard truth. And how he makes it seem as the gas is a sea, green and deep, makes it more realistic, like you are there watching a man drown in gas. I just think this poem well is written, and beautiful.
I underlined the appositive phrases.
^w^
I'm so glad you are enjoying the literature, Sabryna. It really is good stuff. You are not completely clear on appositives yet, so you should take another look at that part of Kilgallon. You are doing the dialectical journal task just right, though.
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