Tiredness has consumed the soldiers
Drunk with fatigue
Comparison to describe soldiers
Bent double like old beggars under sacks
Dialogue
Gas! Gas! Quick boys!
Imagery to describe the setting and death
As under a green sea I saw him drowning
Describing his frightful experience
He plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning
Describing the death around him
If you could hear, at every jolt the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs”
Shows he’s against war
The old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori