Question

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
a. Who will not know of the war?
b. Why will no one care 'when it is done ?
c. What is the speaker talking about? Explain in detail.​

Answer 1

Answer

• common people will not know of war
• Will care at last when it is done. The poem is saying that we humans are not as important as we might like to think in the grand scheme of nature. If humans destroy themselves in a war, nature won't care. The birds, the frogs, and the trees will continue to go about their business as if nothing happened.
• Just like fiction has a narrator, poetry has a speaker–someone who is the voice of the poem. Often times, the speaker is the poet. Other times, the speaker can take on the voice of a persona–the voice of someone else including animals and inanimate objects.