Arms and the boy paragraph

Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. Arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, that uses metaphors and imagery to serve the main idea. The main idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. The metaphor 'how cold steel is...hunger of blood' describes how the gun is like an animal or a creature who kills something. The imagery 'Blue with all malice, like madmans flash' show us how the gun is hungry for humans, again referring the gun to a animal or creature. 'Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth' tells us how the bullets are like the teeth biting through flesh. 'Stroke these blind, blunt bullet-heads' describes us how desperate they are to kill. Another metaphor such as 'for his teeth seem for laughing round an apple' and as well as the imagery of the last three lines 'no claws....not talons....nor antlers' which tells us humans are not animals and that they are not designed to kill. Wilfred Owen uses lots of descriptive language like metaphors and imagery to show us how war is unnatural.