1.
What does the meter represent? Why?
2.
How do people age in the poem? Why?
3.
What type of war method is "The Old Lie"(Owen 27)?
4.
What do most veterans experience as a result of war?
5.
What can you get drunk on that isn't alcohol (Owen 7)?
6.
What creates the metaphor of "an ecstasy of fumbling"(Owen 9)?
7.
What was WWI originally known as?
8.
In line 2, what are the soldiers referred to that creates Juxtaposition (Owen)? Why?
9.
What does the simile in line 20 compare the freshly "burned" soldier to (Owen)?
10.
What type of gas was used in the poem? (Hint: how are the effects described?)
