Question

what did this tell the speaker the owl by Edward thomas
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Answer 1

Answer:

The owl represents for Thomas “all who lay under the stars, soldiers and poor, unable to rejoice.” Suddenly his food seems “salted”. This implies that he feels guilty about the suffering that he has escaped and other could not. He suddenly loses in some sense the pleasures of the inn.

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Answer 2

the melancholy cry of the owl in a silent night tells the speaker that there are many other people who has no food, shelter and rest wich made the food salted