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English, 11.12.2019 23:31 lilghost3226

What statement best explains the impact of the phrase “all went lame; all blind” in stanza 1 of the poem?

it suggests that no soldier escapes the hell of war.

it places the blame for the attack on an unseen enemy.

it shows that all of humanity is impacted by war.

it conveys the emotional reactions of the soldiers.

dulce et decorum est
by wilfred owen
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 gas-shells dropping softly 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 floundering 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 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.

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