How are the soldiers send off? How is their return different from their departure.
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There is no escaping the reality that the soldiers that were sent are going to die, and they are going to die young.
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One of the things which make ‘The Send-Off’ a masterclass of poetry is the way in which Owen suggests the cracks already showing beneath the supposedly joyous and celebratory event of a group of soldiers being cheered on as they depart their homes and head for the western front. Take the first three lines of the poem: the soldiers are singing, implying happiness, but their faces are ‘grimly gay’, hinting at the worry and uncertainty lurking just beneath the surface. Similarly, these young men have been adorned with wreaths of white flowers: garlanded like war heroes and brave soldiers, or a foreshadowing of the dead soldiers’ funeral wreaths? And what does it mean to talk about the men’s breasts being ‘stuck’ with these wreaths, rather than ornamented or decorated?
‘The Send-Off’ also predicts that those soldiers who are lucky enough to return home alive will find their hometowns and villages to be very different (‘half-known’) from the ones they left: there will be no crowds of girls to greet them and cheer them as there was to see them off, and no great celebration of their heroism.
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