The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole
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- The Falling Leaves - Margaret Postgate Cole - 1915
- 1 stanza, 1 sentence, no full stop until the end
- Shows death and war don't stop
- "I saw the brown leaves dropping from their tree"
- Personal pronoun
- Metaphor for the men
- Nature imagery - should die from natural causes not war
- "But thickly, silently"
- Adverbs
- Short lines
- Mass death
- "They fell, like snowflakes"
- Simile
- Blunt
- Snow eventually mens with no trace, just like men die with no trace
- Euphemism
- Soften the harsh reality
- "Stain by now ind of age or pestilence"
- Their death is premature and unnatural
- "Like snowflakes"
- Repetition
- All different
- Unique
- 1 stanza, 1 sentence, no full stop until the end
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