Comprehension of the text & Vocab

1. What is the current state of the soldiers? drank with fatigue, very tired, sleepy
2. How do the soldiers look like? Like old beggars, Knock-kneed, Blood-shod, barely
walking and wounded
3. Where did they come from and where are they heading to? they are marching from the
front lines and they coming from their tranches (distant rest)
4. Why the poet is warning from? gas attack
5. What happens with the soldier that does not have a mask? - He dies in agony: floundring
like a man in fire or lime
6. Are there any consequences on the poets life after this event? he dreams of him: In all
my dreams, before my helpless sight
7. Whom is the poet calling my friend in the poem? the reader
8. What does it represent the love and honour of dying for ones country for the poet? a
lie, deceiving
9. Do you think that the old lie might have worked after WWI? Do you think that is still
working today?