BIOL1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Caesura, Morale, Anthem For Doomed Youth
10 Aug 2021
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I think the war will end this year. We don"t see much of them square-"eaded "uns. We"re out of harm"s way, not bad fed. I"m longing for a taste of your old buns. (say, jimmie, spare"s a bite of bread. ) My feet"s improvin", as i told you of. Jim, give"s a hand with pack on, lad. Write my old girl, jim, there"s a dear. ) In this poem, owen is telling the story of a wounded soldier writing home to reassure his wife that he is well fed, in good health, that he is safe and that the war will end soon. The poem includes heavy irony, contrasting realities between what the narrator is writing home to his wife and what his reality actually is. The poem uses colloquial, informal language perhaps indicating that men lose their honour in war, they lose the pretence and "properness" they would have held at home.
