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Owen’s allusion to ‘passing-bells’ draws parallels to those used in a memorial service, emphasising the loss of commemoration of the soldier’s life.
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Owen’s allusion to ‘passing-bells’ draws parallels to those used in a memorial service, emphasising the loss of commemoration of the soldier’s life.
Owen’s simile as continues the rhetorical question, where the soldier’s death is starkly compared to that of ‘cattle’, killed mercilessly and abandoned, illuminates the futility of the soldier’s lives not just to themselves, but by society, as nameless enlisted men die silently, without acknowledgement.