In all his dreams the same soldier plunges at the speaker.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
The soldier s image is everywhere.
And like always he can do nothing but look at him helplessly.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
If you could hear at every jolt the blood.
You said he plunged at me guttering choking drowning.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
Worst of all our speaker can t do anything to help the dying soldier.
Because the trio of verbs are verbs hat end in ing it gives the sense that the action is in the present tense however rather evidently this is in the past tense.
Behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch the white eyes writhing in his face his hanging face like a devil s sick of sin.
Due to the fact that he plunged past tense for those of you who do not understand basic english lexicon.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch the white eyes writhing in his face his hanging face like a devil s sick of sin.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
If you could hear at every jolt the blood.
It s some time after the battle but our speaker just can t get the sight of his dying comrade out of his head.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch the white eyes writhing in his face.
If you could hear at every jolt the blood.
If poetry could tell it backwards true begin that moment shrapnel scythed you to the stinking mud.
In the speaker s thoughts in his dreams in his poetry.
To genevra by george gordon byron poems by claire newby imagery blue tenderness thy long fair hair it invokes sight and invokes the emotion of love because he loves the woman dearly and he lets you see the long fair hair and what he loves so much about her.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch the white eyes writhing in his face his hanging face like a devil s sick of sin.
If you could hear at every jolt the blood.