Question

Can someone please point out the metaphors in this poem by Wilfred Owen?

Answer 1

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Answer 2

@Destinymasha @Whitemonsterbunny17 ?

Answer 3

Metaphors are all comparisons that dont use like or as.

Answer 4

OK. Can you point out a few so I can get a clearer idea?

Answer 5

Anybody?

Answer 6

@anonymous_user ?

Answer 7

Give me a second to read it and I'll try to help!

Answer 8

OK, Thank You!

Answer 9

I was having trouble finding metaphors, so I looked up some things on google and this might help you: http://www.123helpme.com/assets/3559.html

Answer 10

Thanks!

Answer 11

need help still?

Answer 12

I would just like to have some examples from this poem.

Answer 13

sorry i ws doing a test

Answer 14

hm

Answer 15

first lets start off like this

Answer 16

what does metaphors mean?

Answer 17

metaphor*

Answer 18

well...?

Answer 19

Metaphors are all comparisons that don't use "like" or "as".

Answer 20

here is example of one I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression

Answer 21

OK. I think I got to look at the poem again.

Answer 22

ok

Answer 23

How about the way Owen compares the pain of the soldiers to "vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues"? That would be metaphor?

Answer 24

i think so