How did the flares announce the front lines? 2. How does Owen point to the human exhaustion experienced by soldiers in the first stanza of the poem? 3. How does Owen relate the experience of being gassed? How does he interrupt for the reader of his poem, the death of a soldier who dies as a result of being gassed? How do Owen’s words speak profoundly to the reality of war? 4. What feeling does Owen leave you with regarding the "sweetness and honor" of die for one’s country?