COVE

Soldiers were often living in poor conditions within the trenches. With ongoing battles and constant moving, soldiers were often in pain and exhausted.

In the beginning lines of Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen speaks about the conditions most soldiers were in. 

"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."