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Question: Can soembody please help me anotate/analyse this poem!?!?
can somebody please analyse this poem!. Can you please indicate any language techniques used(e!.g!. simile, personification) poetry structure such as rhyme scheme and enjambment and can you please tell me the form of this poem(e!.g!. free verse)/ Thank you


"Of course, its done him worlds of good", they said,
"He's twice the man he was - a puny chap
he used to be, if you remember - always at books and that,
but since he joined
he's broadened out!. They've made a man of him;
You wouldn't know now"!.

Deep-sunk in rain-soaked ditch, with weeds and filth
stopping his mouth, the soldier lies;
swollen and black, his face turns to the skies
in blank, unquestioning stare, his body, tight
and big as flood-drowned pig, lurches and sways,
to wind and water!. Yes, he's broadened out -
he's twice the man he was; a pity, though,
his life should run, like bright oil down a gutter,
to implement some politician's brag!.

His world went out
through that neat hole in temple, quickly and easily
as words from windy mouths!. And loves unknown,
and skies unseen, and books unread,
forever lost, he's dead!.

You wouldn't know him now!.

FA Horn 1940Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It's pretty straightforward!.!.!. It's about the government sending boys to war for reasons that have very little (if anything) to do with their OWN country!. The poem is saying that if the government minded its own business instead of butting into the matters of other countries, our intelligent young men could grow and flourish into bright minds that would shape the future, maybe even bring about world peace!. instead we waste their lives and their bright minds and futures!. They end up face down in a trench with a bullet in their head, all for what!?Www@QuestionHome@Com