expla the exprsn "grimly gay"

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• 1. “GRIMLY GAY”
• THE SEND-OFFWILED OWENTRACK 10 ON POEMS BY WILED OWEN THE POEM WAS WRTEN AT RIPON, WHERE THERE WAS A HUGE ARMY MP. THE TROOPS HAVE JT E OM A SENDG-OFF CEREMONY – CHEERG CROWDS, BELLS, DMS, FLOWERS GIVEN BY… READ MORE JAN. 1, 19181 VIEWER23.4K VIEWS6 CONTRIBUTORSTHE SEND-OFF LYRICSDOWN THE CLOSE, DARKENG LAN THEY SANG THEIR WAYTO THE SIDG-SHED,AND LED THE TRA WH FAC GRIMLY GAY.THEIR BREASTS WERE STUCK ALL WHE WH WREATH AND SPRAYAS MEN'S ARE, AD.DULL PORTERS WATCHED THEM, AND A SUAL TRAMPSTOOD STARG HARD,SORRY TO MISS THEM OM THE UPLAND MP.THEN, UNMOVED, SIGNALS NODD, AND A LAMPWKED TO THE GUARD.SO SECRETLY, LIKE WRONGS HHED-UP, THEY WENT.THEY WERE NOT OURS:WE NEVER HEARD TO WHICH ONT THE WERE SENT.NOR THERE IF THEY YET MOCK WHAT WOMEN MEANTWHO GAVE THEM FLOWERS.SHALL THEY RETURN TO BEATGS OF GREAT BELLSIN WILD TRALOADS?A FEW, A FEW, TOO FEW FOR DMS AND YELLS,MAY CREEP BACK, SILENT, TO STILL VILLAGE WELLS,UP HALF-KNOWN ROADS.2EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

1. “GRIMLY GAY”

Another oxymoron is ed as the tras members, ie the soldiers are said to look grimly gay. Owen’s referenc to ‘led the tra wh fac grimly gay’ shows that even their happs is tempered by the ong misery of what awas them; though they do not know yet, their liv are gog to be short and full of pa, and Owen sheds light on this by forhadowg this reactn. IDown the ep, darkeng lan they sang their wayTo the wag tra, And filled s doors wh fac grimly gay, And heads & shoulrs whe wh wreath & spray, As men’s are, sla.

And led the tra wh fac grimly gay.

THE SEND-OFFWILED OWENTRACK 10 ON POEMS BY WILED OWEN THE POEM WAS WRTEN AT RIPON, WHERE THERE WAS A HUGE ARMY MP. THE TROOPS HAVE JT E OM A SENDG-OFF CEREMONY – CHEERG CROWDS, BELLS, DMS, FLOWERS GIVEN BY… READ MORE JAN. 1, 19181 VIEWER23.4K VIEWS6 CONTRIBUTORSTHE SEND-OFF LYRICSDOWN THE CLOSE, DARKENG LAN THEY SANG THEIR WAYTO THE SIDG-SHED,AND LED THE TRA WH FAC GRIMLY GAY.THEIR BREASTS WERE STUCK ALL WHE WH WREATH AND SPRAYAS MEN'S ARE, AD.DULL PORTERS WATCHED THEM, AND A SUAL TRAMPSTOOD STARG HARD,SORRY TO MISS THEM OM THE UPLAND MP.THEN, UNMOVED, SIGNALS NODD, AND A LAMPWKED TO THE GUARD.SO SECRETLY, LIKE WRONGS HHED-UP, THEY WENT.THEY WERE NOT OURS:WE NEVER HEARD TO WHICH ONT THE WERE SENT.NOR THERE IF THEY YET MOCK WHAT WOMEN MEANTWHO GAVE THEM FLOWERS.SHALL THEY RETURN TO BEATGS OF GREAT BELLSIN WILD TRALOADS?A FEW, A FEW, TOO FEW FOR DMS AND YELLS,MAY CREEP BACK, SILENT, TO STILL VILLAGE WELLS,UP HALF-KNOWN ROADS.2EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

Take the first three l of the poem: the soldiers are sgg, implyg happs, but their fac are ‘grimly gay’, htg at the worry and uncertaty lurkg jt beneath the surface. ” Example #2 Down the close darkeng lan they sang their way To the sidg-shed, And led the tra wh fac grimly gay. Therefore, their fac are “grimly gay”—an oxymoron, but certaly unrstandable given the circumstanc.

For example, “And led the tra wh fac grimly gay”, “Dull porters watched them, and a sual tramp” and “Sorry to miss them om the upland mp.

Wiled Owen shows the e of end rhyme such as way/gay/spray and shed/ Scheme: This poem shows different rhyme schem each stanza, such as ABAAB the first and send and different other A stanza is a poetic form of some l. For example, the field of poetry, Wilied Owen scrib, the poem The Send-Off the fac of war-bound soldiers as “grimly gay”, two words which one would hardly associate together. In this ntext, Owen emphasis the ntradictn between the ner feelgs of the war-bound soldiers, and their outward appearance: the grim outlook they bear towards the apparent doom that awas them at the ont l of war, and how they put on brave and as Owen stat, “gay” onts, to mask their apprehensn.