Read these lines from "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

How do these lines evoke a sense of the time and place in which this poem is set?
A) The words limped and blood-shod, along with the reference to being "lame," indicate that the poem takes place during the Revolutionary War and is set during a naval battle.
B) The words asleep and fatigue, along with the reference to being "all blind," indicate that the poem takes place in a hospital and depicts Civil War soldiers having nightmares about their experiences in battle.
C) The words marched and boots, along with the reference to "gas-shells dropping," indicate that the poem takes place during WWI and is set near a battlefield.
D) The words limped and drunk, along with the reference to being "deaf," indicate that the poem takes place in World War II and is set in a tavern where soldiers are celebrating a victory in battle.

C) The words marched and boots, along with the reference to "gas-shells dropping," indicate that the poem takes place during WWI and is set near a battlefield. This is the correct option.

Wilfred Owen is known as a war poet. He was born in England and wanted to become a poet. In 1915, he volunteered himself to join WWI after he had been to France. When he was in France, he heard about the war but did not feel much involved in it. Yet, he felt guilty after some time and decided to come back to England and joined in the war. In his poems, he expressed his intense personal experience as a soldier and the inexplicable power of physical, moral and psychologial trauma from WWI.

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Answer:

C) The words marched and boots, along with the reference to "gas-shells dropping," indicate that the poem takes place during WWI and is set near a battlefield.

Explanation:

In this passage, the most important indication that we have about the time period and setting of the story is the reference to "gas-shells." Gas shells were a type of chemical weapon that was developed during WWI. Chemical weapons were an important and extremely deadly feature of the conflict. Moreover, the fact that the shells are "dropping" indicates that the characters are near a battlefield.