Question

20. Write a character sketch of Elsa
21. Write an appreciation of the poem, 'Send-Off​

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21) The Send-Off is an anti-war poem and is atypically dark, which was a trademark of Owen’s poetry. It is presented in four stanzas each of which is five lines long. Rhyme features heavily throughout the poem which has an ABAAB pattern and interestingly all of the “B-rhymes” are shorter lines. The rhyme pattern mixed with the sombre nature of The Send-Off gives it an almost jarring quality. I think this is deliberate to emphasise the futility in the hope of the people taken their love ones to the station before they are shipped off to war. It is told in the first person, passively. But actively addresses the reader in the final stanza which gives a very dramatic effect.

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