The poem grass is trying to make a point of the large amounts of people that die in these wars we consider honorable. It opens by mentioning two famous battle sites, Austerlitz and Waterloo. It states "Shovel them under and let me work-- I am the grass; I cover all. Sandburg is trying to make a statement that the grass is acting as the cover up for the blood that was shed there. The grass grows and the lives lost there are forgott

The most detailed and graphic of the three poems is Dulche at Decorum Est. The first four lines describe the state of the soldier's health as they go through the days. It creates an image of the bent over solider in the line "bent double, like old beggars under sacks." The next four lines show the mindset of these men as they got ready for battle. They "marched asleep" showing their movements were almost robotic and "drunk with fatigue" a simile comparing the tired state to one of drunken daze, so oblivious to their surroundings the gas shells exploding go unnoticed. The next two lines states "fitting the clumsy helmets just in time" illustrating how they were not even aware enough to put their helmets on straight. The next three lines describe someone who is being tortured by the pain and is "drowning under the green sea" is the death of a man he sees. "In all my dreams before my helpless sight he plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning." These two lines illustrate the helplessness the soldier's feel in their attempt to help their fellow brothers. Still haunted in his dreams by these images that filled the battlefield. The next lines tell how they just tossed aside those who died. The author tries to put you in his position and understand the hell that war brings forward and the pain that comes from such a brutal event. He asks the reader if you could see these horrors of war, you would not tell children that it is

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