imagery are the three main elements that influenced my reaction

e men and reinforces the hopelessness they feel. The author's comparison of the dyeing man's "hanging face" to a "devil's sick of sin" dramatizes just how corrupt it all seems. The most powerful simile is when the author compares the sound of the gassed man gurgling blood in is lungs as "obscene as cancer" (610). The most effective metaphor is the "vile, incurable sores" that the author compares to the troop's memories. This metaphor illustrates how the troops will never forget this experience. This pain will forever be with them.

k about, but exposes the reality of war. These images made me feel disgusted at what war is capable of. The author ties this poem together in the last line.

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The author clears up any misconception that war is noble and convinces me that his beliefs are true. 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 m

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