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Friendship and Enmity in First World War Literature

The speaker can only watch helplessly as the man dies a horrendous, obscene, abject death. Like much First World War writing, the poem is not only about the horror of war; the need to represent that horror with unflinching realism, so that what Owen called ‘the pity of war’ can be weighed, and rendered without euphemism or sentimentality. It is also about trauma; about how such horror won’t go away, but keeps recurring; how he can only go on watching helplessly: