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In all my dreams
Death
Wild With All Regrets
The speaker describes his approach to death and how
he would cling to anything in the world if it were to
prolong life despite hardships or pain
personification of death:
Life
Wild With All Regrets
Owen becomes humble in the short moment between
the deciding battle of whether he lives or dies
regretting not spending his time enjoying the small
but precious moments he dismissed.
Your fifty years in store seem none too many, But
Ive five minutes.
Pity of war
Wild With All Regrets
the pity of war is that war makes people long for life
"I'd like to kneel and sweep his floors"
Camaraderie
Wild With All Regrets
This theme is the basis of the poem. The sense of
"brothers in arms" is carried by soldiers, from trenches
to hospitals. It is shown during the first stanza when
Owen describes the broken soldier in his bed (My arms
have mutinied against me - brutes!
My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,) while a friend, of
which he met in the war, brings him a book to read.
This shows the companionship build by spending time
together in the trenches as the injured soldier is
treated with respect and compassion by his comrade.
This is reinforced by the connotation of the bond
between father and son while the injured man reflects
what it would have been like to be a father. I believe
that this idea represents how strong the bond truly is as
the soldier refers to the other one as his 'brother' (a
family bond, much like father and son).