Question

What effect does the phrase “helpless sight” in Stanza 2 have on the poem?

It conveys the speaker's feeling of powerlessness.

It captures how difficult it is for the speaker to see.

It expresses the pain felt by the victim of the gas attack.

Here is the stanza Gas! Gas! Quick boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling,Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime —
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

It suggests that the soldier's suffering is the speaker's fault.

Answer 1

it conveys the speaker's feeling of powerlessness

Answer 2

Answer: It conveys the speaker's feeling of powerlessness.

Explanation: In his poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen paints a disturbingly clear and realistic picture of war, effectively taking all glamour from it: a first-person account of a soldier who sees how one of his mates, who could not put on his gas mask in time, dies a horrible death caused by chemical weapons, an experient that haunts him to this day.