3) Much of the poem is taken up by the response of the ‘strange friend,’ in the third stanza. How does he express / depict:
a) The individual loss of the two soldiers?
b) The harmful effect of war on civilisation itself (universally)?
c) The brutal, continual slaughter that will occur throughout the future because nations continue to wage war relentlessly
4) Why does Owen suggest that real beauty (and pity) lies in poetry rather than girls with ‘braided hair’?
5) At the beginning of the final stanza, the dead enemy soldier repeats the polite salutation with ‘I am the enemy you killed, my friend.’ Why does Owen have the enemy soldiers refer to each other in this way?
DUE: Thursday 27th May
