Kenneth slessor

creating hurt and pain. This emotive language instantaneously makes us feel sympathetic to the soldiers or their loved ones who have lost them. The use of the word ‘clubbing’ is used to create the image of aggression showing how the soldiers died, terrible deaths.

The poem begins with “Softly and humbly”, creating a sense of calmness and silence. The contrast is that the usually loud and noisy sounds associated with war are not present, as the bod...