English GCSE - Futility
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- Futility - Wilfred Owen
- What's it about?
- An injured/dead soldier during WW1 in France. The poet questions the point in life being created to be destroyed so easily.
- Form
- Mainly half rhyme is used to make the poem seem less formal.
- Structure
- Each stanza begins with a command. The first is a practical instruction but after that the language becomes more philosophical.
- Past and present
- Uses a mixture of tenses to show contrast. Repeated references to waking show the soldier being alive or dead.
- Personification
- Nature is shown to be powerful but helpless.
- Philosophical language
- Becomes more biblical as the poet reflects on the events.
- Direct language
- The reader is addressed directly as the poem contains commands and questions.
- Sympathy
- The poet is sympathetic to the soldier.
- Anger and frustration
- The poet feels bitter about the waste of the life in war.
- Comparisons
- Sadness and loss - The Falling Leaves, Come On Come Back; Effects of conflict - Poppies; Helplessness- Belfast Confetti
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