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…showed last 75 words of 708 total…with anger and bitterly anti-war, anti-patriotic, anti-propaganda theme centered around the physical and psychological terrors of gas attack. There is no signs glory left through the lines of the poem, but rather a sense of despair and loss. The rhythmic and verbal cues combine to show the horror of war, and his final stanza sums up the point of the poem that death for ones country is neither sweet nor noble, but sickening and painful.