Wilfred Owen's The Revolt

he applies that seasonal cycle to delineate a dark image of war and the subversive effect it has on life as a whole. With the outbreak of war, winter vehemently invades the world, with the inescapable gloom and doom its symbolic association suggests. It heralds the devastation and human loss yet to come, which is further reinforced when Owen adds that "The grain of human Autumn rots, down-hurled." Owen relates the lives of the soldiers to autumn, the season of withering and weakness, and envisages their falling down on the frontline as the falling of leaves off trees, a conceptualization denoting that coherence does exist between the LIFETIME IS A YEAR and PEOPLE ARE PLANTS metaphors. Moreover, the lines allude to Shelley's poem "The Revolt