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If you were a composer, what images and sounds would you use to convey ideas and feelings in the poem Futility?

If I was a composer I would use variety of disturbing images, sound clips and horror music to convey the feelings in the peom futility. The distrubing  images I will be using will be those pictures taken at the time on the battlefield which include dieing soldiers and raging weapons such as artilleries and tanks. I will be adding sound clips such as gunfire and bombing to give viewers strong impact of the battlefield. In Futility Wilfred Owen juxtaposed the peaceful countryside with the battle at  Western Front in France, I might consider adding a picture of a peaceful countryside which suddenly changes with artillery strike sound track on background into battlefield which clearly shows horrible pictures of the trench and the massacred soldiers. This sudden unexpected change will give viewers a shocking feeling thus more horror can be achieved to the viewers.

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