"Suicide in the Trenches" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est" deals with the struggle of soldiers in the war. The poems are graphic as they display suffering in ghastly detail. While "Suicide in the Trenches"

The poets use a number of techniques to create vivid scenarios of the war. They need to do so in order to get the attention as well as stir up the imagination of the civilians who have not experienced the war. Sassoon's poem is more to the point and there are no metaphors or similes in his poem. However there is personification which is evident in the line "In winter trenches, cowed and glum,"(Sassoon 5). In these lines it is the trenches that are being personified. They are given the human characteristics of being cowed and morose. Wilfred Owen on the other hand uses a lot of imagery in his poem. Owen uses similes on various occasions in the poem. He starts the poem of with a simile where he describes the walk of a soldiers carrying heavy supplies hiding from bullets to that of beggars on the streets covering themselves with sheets to protect themselves from the cold. This is evident when Owen states "bent double, like old beggars under sacks"(Owen 1). Another simile is used in lines eleven and twelve when Owen states "But someone still was yelling out and stumbling/And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime."(Owen 11-12). In these lines he depicts an image of a soldier suffering from a gas attack. Owen compares the actions of the soldier to a man struggling after he might have fallen in lime or is being burnt in a fire. The third simile in the poem is "His face hanging like a devil's sick of sin"(Owen 20). Here Owen describes the look on the dead man's face comparing it to a hopeless devil that no longer wants to indulge in s

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