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Waiting For Dark By Wilfred Owen Ap Essay

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Owen uses a metaphor:"waiting for dark", which shows the reader that the man has nothing to do. This emphasises how the character is very lonely with nothing to do, no one to talk to and nothing to keep him from his thoughts, which shows the reader the dull, endless life that he has been forced to live. "dark" is a metaphor for death: the man feels as though his life is so pointless that he is just waiting for death, which emphasises how bland and dull his life

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