More effectively than metaphors and similes, the graphic imagery that this poem explodes with drastically influenced my reaction to this poem. Some of the images in this poem nearly made me feel nauseas. The images I experienced in the readings of this poem could never be forgotten, especially when I take my three sons to register with Selective Services. My emotional and physical reaction reinforces how effective the author's use of imagery is in this poem. The image of the troops "drunk with fatigue" and deaf to the "gas-shells dropping softly behind" is a chilling image (610). As someone yells "Gas" it is an "ecstasy of fumbling" and one is still "flound'ring like a man on fire" (610). Through the "thick green light, as under a sea" the speaker sees the man drowning and describes the "gargling from the forth-corrupted lungs" (610). Each of these images are disturbing to think about, but exposes the reality of war. These images made me feel disgusted at what war is capable of.

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