Question

Which two parts of this excerpt from Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" imply that war has made soldiers apathetic?

Answer 1

"but limpen on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

of tired, outstripped five - nines

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - an ecstasy of fumbling"

This excerpt from Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est", imply that war has made soldiers apathetic.

Answer 2

Answer:

• but limpen on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

of tired, outstripped five - nines

• Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! - an ecstasy of fumbling"

Explanation:

These are the two parts of the excerpt that imply that war has made soldiers apathetic. In the excerpt, Owen describes how the life of soldiers during the war was. His description is extremely bleak. He talks about marching through sludge, almost asleep from exhaustion, sometimes with no boots. He describes that the men became extremely apathetic, and stopped noticing things. They were all "lame," "deaf" and "blind," and the tiredness made them sleepwalkers.