The falling leaves
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- The Falling Leaves
- down to line 6 describing the leaves
- line 7 onwards is about the soldiers
- leaves a metaphor for the soldiers
- set in world war 1
- Autumn is the season of death and change. Autumn has less light, symbolic to less hope.
- the poet juxtaposed the calm and sadness of death.
- contemplative tone
- speaker is standing by observing the war and is not personally involved with the war.
- deathly atmosphere
- sibilant soft `w' creates a sense of fluidity and empathises tranquility
- sinister and depressing.
- rotting/ decomposing bodies
- reverence
- lots of brave men
- each unique but die in the masses so they lose their individuality
- irregular line lengths could represent life lines
- metaphor shows the fragility of the men
- brief existance
- down to line 6 describing the leaves
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