Wilfred Owen: Poems

the poem Futility by Wilfred Owen: discuss how the poet succeeds in conveying a strong anti-war message?

I don't know how the poem is conveying an anti-war message.

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The meaning of the title, then, is the futility of trying to understand how nature could create life but stand by as it is laid to waste. The critic Arthur E. Lane sees Owen creating a "poetic transformation of battlefield death, death particular and individual, into death as the absurd and ultimate denial of the value of life."

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