How Is Alliteration Used In Dulce Et Decorum Est

Another linguistic device used in 'Henry V' is alliteration and the evidence for this is "stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood" This shows the attitude toward war as it Henry telling his men to do all these transformations, they have control over what they want to do. However, this is not the case as an alliteration "watch the white eyes writhing" in the war poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' shows the reality of war. The "white eyes" creates an horrifying image of a soldier's eye "writhing" and the soldier has no control over it because he is paralysed due to the gas. This makes the reader shocked because the poem has such graphic details and there are not many other poems of world war one that go into that much detail, not just that but Wilfred successfully creates such vivid images burst in front of our eyes. The "white eyes" could be compared to the white feathers that were given to the 'cowards' who did not go to war. The white feathers were there to make the young men that did not go to war stand out so they could be immediately looked down upon by the onlookers therefore the young men would eventually recruit for the war as they wouldn't have been able to stand the shame. The "white eye" make the soldier stand out from the rest as it showed that he had died from not putting the gas mask on fast enough and this would make the onlookers feel sympathy for the soldier's unfortunate fate.