Annotating is the closest technique in the process of close reading.
Annotating the process of writing detailed notes around said paragraph. It doesn't just mean to take notes, you could also be highlighting or underlining some terms. I can't clearly describe it because you can practically do anything here.
If you do a Google search for the definition of annotation, you get...
<em>"a</em><span><em> note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram."</em></span>
In Dulce et Decorum Est, hags is used to describe young soldiers. The simile 'coughing like hags' was used because the young soldiers went into battle strong and full of life. After battle, they returned looking aged and beat down - hence 'hags' or resembling beggars.
This falsity around him and within him did more than anything else to poison his last days
