The Sentry paragraph

"Eyeballs, huge bulged like squids"
The Sentry is a poem about the First World War which includes information about the experience of being in war and how brutal it was being apart of it. War is a brutal nightmare. War is a brutal nightmare. This example is the key to what the Sentry poem is about and in the poem it uses several quotations which refers to the main idea; "Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime, kept slush waist-high and rising", "'O sir, my eyes - I'm blind, - I'm blind, I'm blind!", "Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids'", "Shrieking air", " Drowned himself for good". Wilfred Owen uses figurative language to serve the big idea; onomatopoeia, metaphors, alliteration, imagery of sight, sound, feel and smell. Including all of these figurative languages in a poem makes it really powerful to the reader and also to get a better understanding but also to look deeper in the poem and finding all the different figurative languages in it.