The sentry paragraph

"O sir, my eyes — I'm blind — I'm blind, I'm blind!"The sentry is an important poem for a number of reasons. He describes the horrendous conditions during life in the trenches of World War One. War is a brutal nightmare. He uses figurative language such as imagery, metaphors, onomatopoeia and alliteration. The writer uses smell, hear, sight and sound imagery to describe the location. To show how horrific and brutal war was. Wilfred Owen uses metaphors such as 'Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, Kept slush waist high, that rising hour by hour,' describing how horribly cold, wet and humid it was in the trenches, basically describing the conditions and location where the soldiers had to live in. The writer also uses onomatopoeia like 'whizz-bangs' which shows the atmosphere and sounds of all the artillery shooting. The writer uses powerful figurative language to support the ideas which creates the big idea