The effect paragraph

 He'd never seen so many dead before. The effect, by Siegfried Sassoon is a powerful poem which uses lots of metaphors to describe what happens to the soldiers in world war one. The big idea of this poem is that too many men are dying. The poem uses metaphors such as "Flapping along the fire-step like a fish" this refers the soldiers as fish who are dying outside the water, how the fish can't breath. This describes how the soldiers are dying slowly in pain. "They sprawled in yellow daylight while he swore" describes how loads of soldiers are spread out and loads of soldiers are covering the hole land either dead or trying to survive. Siegfried Sassoon uses figurative language but mostly metaphors to show that too many people are dying and being dragged down in the horrors of war.