The Battle Of Lone Pine Metaphors

This poem expresses the emotions of the soldiers during The Battle of Lone Pine. It is able to showcase how the traumatic experiences soldiers had to undergo during the war changed them and how their families will have to adjust to them being different. This poem criticizes war as it argues how killing someone for your country is not worth it as not only are you physically hurting someone but you are also emotionally hurting that soldier's family as they will have to suffer a loss of a father or husband. This poem uses a range of poetic devices such as similes, personification, Rhetorical question and metaphors which helps to convey the horror and emotion of war. The poem is written in first person which helps the reader to better understand