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The Sentry. Wilfred Owen. 1893 –. 1918. We’d found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell. Hammered on top, but never quite burst through. Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime. Kept slush waist high, that rising hour by hour,
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Track 13 on Poems by Wilfred Owen. Owen wrote most of ‘The Sentry while receiving hospital treatment for shell-shock at Craiglockhart in 1917. He completed it not long before his death in...
The Sentry. We’d found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell. Hammered on top, but never quite burst through. Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime. Kept slush waist high, that rising hour by hour, Choked up the steps too thick with clay to climb. What murk of air remained stank old, and sour.
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Born on 18 March in the year 1893, in Shropshire, Wilfred Owen was a British soldier. He is considered as one of the most important English poet of the time of World War 1. Wilfred was killed during war at the age of twenty five and most of his poems were discovered and published after his death.
“The Sentry” by Wilfred Owen is a composition of vivid imagery portraying the horrors of war and the trauma suffered by the soldiers. Many critics consider this poem as being a very personal composition for Owen and believe that the poem reflects his personal experience since Owen was a British soldier who fought in World War 1.
The poem is set on the battlefield during a stormy thunderous night with the speaker and his soldiers rescuing an injured sentry while being under attack. During the last stanza, it is revealed that the speaker was remembering that time and thus the setting of the poembecomes the house of the speaker.
ONOMATOPOEIA- “Burst” “Thumping” “Pummeled” “Crumps” “Thud” ASSONANCE- “Guttering” “buffeting” ALLITERATION- “And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell” “And choked the steps too thick with clay to climb.” “What murk of air remained stank old, and sour”
"The Sentry" is a powerful and moving indictment of war. The poem's grim realism and unflinching portrayal of human suffering make it a powerful reminder of the horrors that soldiers endured during World War I.
“I can’t,” he sobbed. Eyeballs, huge—bulged like squids. Watch my dreams still; but I forgot him there. In posting next for duty, and sending a scout. To beg a stretcher somewhere, and floundering about. To other posts under the shrieking air. Those other wretches, how they bled and spewed, And one who would have drowned himself for good, —
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Nov 28, 2019 · The Sentry. The Dead-Beat. →. THE SENTRY. We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew, And gave us hell; for shell on frantic shell. Hammered on top, but never quite burst through. Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, Kept slush waist-high and rising hour by hour,
