Well, it took me a few tries during school today, but I've just now finished with the Poetry Professor video from class today. I added subtitles to reinforce the structure of the setup and also to reemphasize the literary devices.
I also made note of several inaccuracies from the presentation. Most notably, Wilfred Owen was writing about Chlorine gas, not mustard gas. Consider this from the NYTimes:
In April 1915, hoping for a military breakthrough, Germany launched the war's first major chemical attack, releasing chlorine gas to blow toward French and Algerian troops in their trenches at Ypres, in Belgium. As Tucker gruesomely recounts, along four miles of the front line, tons of yellow-green gas rose to a height of 30 feet as the wind slowly edged it forward. The lethal cloud scorched the eyes and lungs of the terrified French and Algerian soldiers, who vomited and collapsed in agony. Hundreds died, coughing up blood and green froth. The soldiers' silver insignia and buckles immediately turned greenish black. Five months later, Britain launched its own retaliatory chlorine attack, and by 1916 both the Allies and the Central Powers were using artillery packed with chemicals — a total collapse of the Hague declaration.
Also, gas masks were introduced to the battlefield in 1916, so it can be presumed that the speaker was referring to a gas mask when he mentioned "clumsy helmets." Otherwise, the speaker would be as dead as the other guy. Lastly, Owen died at 25, not 19. He still died during the war.
