World war 1 poems (task 8)

World War 1 poem - Wilfred Owen His fingers wake, and flutter up the bed. His eyes come open with a pull of will, Helped by the yellow may-flowers by his head. A blind-cord drawls across the window-sill . . . How smooth the floor of the ward is! what a rug! And who's that talking, somewhere out of sight? Why are they laughing? What's inside that jug? "Nurse! Doctor!" "Yes; all right, all right." But sudden dusk bewilders all the air -- There seems no time to want a drink of water. Nurse looks so far away. And everywhere Music and roses burnt through crimson slaughter. Cold; cold; he's cold; and yet so hot: And there's no light to see the voices by -- No time to dream, and ask -- he knows not what. This passage shows the man is certainly conscious in a way but not in the fullest sense, and the degree to which he is seems hard to determine. He has just come out of sleep, his fluttering fingers suggesting imperfect bodily control, though his "pull of will." The passage also has examples of phonology, one of which is when the man can just about pick out various sounds, such as the nurse talking and laughing. The fact the man in the poem can hear certain things gives the reader that moment if relief that he must be alright. The lexical choices which also comes under phonology making this passage effective would be the words; "Nurse! Doctor!" The two short words implies someone is calling the nurse or the doctor which infers a sense of emergency making the audience feel someone is in trouble. The exclamation marks makes it looks as though the words have been shouted, so again it's like a sense of emergeny.