Arms and the boy

Arms and the boy:
"Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death."
The arms and the boy, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about soldiers in WW1, it uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in 3 of the stanzas, to serve the big idea of the poem. The big idea of the poem is that war is unnatural. An example of metaphor from the first stanza of the poem is "How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood". This metaphor is describing how the bayonet-blade is and feels. The first stanza is all about the secretion of the gun. In the second stanza there is a great metaphor "Or give him cartridges of fine zinc teeth, Sharp with the sharpness of grief and death. This metaphor is linked to the main idea of the stanza because it is describing the cartridges and bullets. In the third stanza it uses a great bit of imagery "There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor antlers through the thickness of his curls. This imagery describes the boy and how people are not designed to kill. All three stanzas all describe something different but they still fit together because it is all about how war is unnatural and it isn't right because people aren't designed to kill each other.