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Poet's Use Of Mockery As Diction In Poem
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The poet's use of mockery as diction conveys his disillusioned attitude
toward the men that plan the battles without actually fighting in them. Using
the words “If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,” to describe the
majors allows the reader to picture the majors as old, fat, out of sh ....
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....soldiers while the old, fat men are
allowed the luxury of living to old age and then dying in their own beds.
"Toddle" is a word that not only describes the gait of the fat, old men but also
the irony of the youth stone dead and the fat, old men waddling home. Through
his use of mocking diction, the poet conveys his disgusted attitude towards the
toddling old men dying in their beds while the good die young.
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