![]() ![]() But when soldiers die in war, none of these are seen. ![]() Deaths are usually associated with coffins decorated with flowers, church services, choir and mourners. This bitterness has found its way into this poem. In the front, he would have seen friends and buddies being cut down leaving the survivors hardly any time or opportunity to mourn. While in the hospital, being treated for shell shock, Owen would have droves of injured soldiers. Owen tries to find what can be compared to these rituals and comes up with the boom of guns, tears in the eyes of sons and friends and the pallor of wives and daughters while they mourn for the death of the young men. At the front, there are no church services, no peeling of bells, no flowers on coffins. Soldiers are dying in their droves, some cut down in their prime by enemy guns, some of disease but they all die unsung. ![]()
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