Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Dulce #2

What do you take line 20 to mean—“His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin”?
Posted by at

10 comments:

  1. dtwelve89November 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM

    I think line 20 is meant to illustrate the facial expression of a man, a man who has dreams and aspirations for the future, a man that feels that it is not his time to go, but death seems inevitable as he stares at it in the face. In their hellish atmosphere there is an evil force that hungers for lives, it shows no mercy to anyone including this soldier, who is clinging on desperately for life.

    ReplyDelete
  2. DecembrielNovember 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM

    Killing is a sin in a lot of religions and considered the work of the devil. Since soldiers are likely to kill people during their life on the line. Soldiers are considered in this quote devils. So I would consider line 20 to mean - a dying soldier that just wants the killing to end.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Tsegu KahsayNovember 11, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    This line which is composed of two phrases which are "His hanging face" and "like a devil's sick of sin", is very complicated hard to connect to each other, but I will try to break it down as of my understanding. The hanging face could mean like a face without any movement, it is trying to explain that this face of a dying soldier is not making any movement. The other phrase, which is like a devil sick of sin is, about a devil who introduced sin to the human kind. Here, Owen is trying to tell us that sin by itself cannot be sick of sin. A devil which is sin cannot be sick of sin, so a devil sick of sin cannot have any expression of a sickness. Coming back to the soldier's face, his face was without any movement and expression because he was starting to die or may be almost dead.

    ReplyDelete
  4. GwenNovember 11, 2009 at 5:22 PM

    I agree with Tee Kaey that "sin cannot be sick of sin". The devil is the figure that people get sent to when they committed a sin. The devil being sick of sin is the face of someone hating what he/she used to have a passion for. I can imagine the face being a look of regret. The man realized that being in the war and going through all this pain wasn't what he wanted. Owen wanted to show how serious the face of this man was by comparing it to the face of a devil being sick of his own specialty.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Ivory LeeNovember 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM

    I think Owens wants to expresses one of the soldier, like what dtwelve89 said. Even the solder still alive, but he was losing the vitality of life. “His hanging face,” even though his face was on his neck, it just likes a man who puts on a mask. It was not real his own face. He was like a puppet; the war was controlling with his life. He loses freedom. “Like a devil’s sick of sin”, he have a face; however he only have a body and the soul was gone. He was losing his emotion, and left cruel body. These kinds of solders are common in the World War one.

    ReplyDelete
  6. AllenNovember 12, 2009 at 10:47 PM

    My thoughts were on this line was the man guilt, of killing shown through his face that part of him were dying each time he killed someone that he could not face the truth about what he was doing in this war. That he need the salvation of hope that it was alright to kill the enemy of they will kill you if you do not and the was draining him to his core of being in this life and time.

    ReplyDelete
  7. raisinsklNovember 13, 2009 at 12:18 PM

    This sentence is a simile/hyperpole that centrally frightens readers and highlights Owen’s points- the aftermath of how soldiers stressed out during the Great War. I perceive that the images of young soldiers who returned their county were becoming critically ill and old. In other word, I think the images created is that soldiers were struggling, and immensely tired and madness. For example, “Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots” represented soldiers were exhausted; “As under a green sea, I saw him drowning,” portrays the soldiers were struggling to dead… est.

    ReplyDelete
  8. carrielamNovember 13, 2009 at 7:26 PM

    I think Owen's meaning in this sentences is his friend is in so much pain,his facial structure from one human being and turn into so ugly and disgusting just like a devil's who disgust about people who have morals.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Rebecca^0^November 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM

    I think this is the method the authors use the metaphor to make the article more lively. As the above students said, the soldiers with the suspended animation likened to the devil to allow readers to better experience the brutality of the soldiers. It can be better reflect the tragic world wars and soldiers of the helpless; they just like the devil only know how to kill, because they know that only they continue to have to kill to get reborn.

    ReplyDelete
  10. MingTaoNovember 13, 2009 at 9:19 PM

    In my opinion, devils in Christian religion, is a representation of sin, so it's impossible for devils to have sick of sin. However, I think the writer use "devils's sick of sin" to discrbie a terrible face image of that dead soldier，indicated that the suffering of the soldiers died under poison gas attack is far beyond we can imagine, and show that how evil the war is.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)