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Comparison: Treatment Of War In "The Rank Stench Of Those Bodies Haunts Me Still" And "The Soldier"
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"The rank stench of those bodies haunts me still" is written in alternating seven and six line stanzas. The lines are all pentameters, but there appears to be no rhyme system. Its structure seems less formal than that of "The Soldier". The opening line acts as a shock, bringing images of death and ....
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....laughter they were part of also seems to imply that the author viewed the deaths as a waste and of no purpose.
In the last stanza, the poem points out that war causes everyone involved pain and loss, and that each side is made up of people who all have the same kinds of feelings:
"Then I remembered someone that I'd seen
Dead in the squalid, miserable ditch,
Heedless of the toiling feet that trod him down.
He was a Prussian with a decent face
Young, fresh and pleasant, so I dare to say.
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