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In the poem" Dulce et decorum est" What does the speaker see happen in the poem?

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He sees and details in very graphic ways the terrible ways that men are dying around him. "An ecstasy of fumbling, fitting the clumsy helments just in time....floundering like a man in fire or lime....

"He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning..."

"White eyes writhing in his face. His handing face, like a devil's sick of sin..." "Blood come garling from the froth corrupted lungs..."