It's Just Another Day On The Battlefields Of World War 1

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In this poem by Owen was stating that, “It's just another day on the battlefields of World War I”. After a few times reading this poem, the speaker shows right away that the poem that the word "normal" isn't a word that doesn’t have any meaning left for the soldiers anymore. Every soldiers that is fighting are all mentally and physically ravaged by the exertions of battle. As time goes by on the battlefield it seems to get worse for them and they all are struggling to stay focus on what is going on around them. When the soldiers were able to go back to camp one for the night that is when a few gas shells drop beside them. The soldiers scramble for their gas masks in a frantic way to attempt to save their own lives. Unfortunately, they didn’t

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