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Futility Quotes, Extra - Coggle Diagram
Futility Quotes
'Always it woke him, even in France,'
The sun always used to wake him and give him life until he died, even within a war.
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'Gently its touch awoke him once,'
This is in the past tense and about how the sun used to wake this soldier in the past but not now.
'Gently' shows the sun as life giving as it used to awake this soldier in the past.
'At home, whispering of fields unsown.'
'Fields unsown' could show land blown apart by shells but also that he died in France in destroyed land.
However, this could also be a sign of his rural background and was potentially in a pals battalion with other boys from his area.
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'Full-nerved, -- still warm, -- too hard to stir?'
'Still warm' shows this soldier recently died and this physical imagery shows that the wound could've been fatal.
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'Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.'
Juxtaposes light and dark because the light inside the soldier has gone out.
This could also show God giving life to the earth in the creation story.
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'Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides'
Extra
Sonnet Form
It's split strangely into 7,7 not 6,8 making it discordant and attacks war by using a romantic poetry convention for such a horrific subject.
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