Does it Matter - Siegfried Sassoon

I really liked this poem. Although it is a short poem it is very touching. The poem has a lot of rhyme and repetition which I think makes the poem even more powerful. The repetition of the title "Does it matter?" keeps the reader thinking through the poem DOES IT MATTER? The poem is obviously about some soldier in the war loosing either their legs, their sight, their dreams! The "Does it matter?" in the beginning of each stanza somewhat implies that loosing your legs, sight or dreams are not important. That since you went to war it doesn't matter you lost everything because you fought for your country and that's what you signed up for. What do you think about the poem?

Smile, Smile, Smile - Wilfred Owen

I think the message of this poem is a bit harder to decipher tan the rest. At the beginning it’s easy, since the speaker is criticizing the newspapers and how they influence the readers by emphasizing the good side of war, like propaganda, and in the other hand barely even mentioning all the deaths and awful things that happen. And the speaker even says what the paper says, and shows how they use phrases such as: “Peace would do wrong to our undying dead…” and “We must be solidly indemnified” (9&12). Strong statements like these would create nationalistic feeling in people and support the war. However once the quote is over I get a bit confused. What do you think the end of the poem means?

Wild with All Regrets - Wilfred Owen

To start this poem is, well in some parts, a bit hard to understand, at least for me. I understand that it is about regret after the connotation of the title “Wild with All Regrets” tells me that much. And then certain parts of the poem such as: “Your fifty years in store seem none too many;/But I’ve five minutes. God! For just two years/To help myself to this good air of yours” (13-15) But then again within that quote I do not entirely understand what he means by “five minutes”, to do what? Or for what to happen? Another part that I do not get is in the first stanza when the speaker says, “I can’t read. There: it’s no use. Take your book” (5). Is the speaker referring to the priest during his mass reading the bible? Well what did you think about the poem?

Disabled - Wilfred Owen

To begin with I think this poem is really sad. I am not sure in which war he thought whether it was the First or the Second World War, but the consequences are still the same. I think it is very unfair that just because he is disabled women won’t look at him and that many people did not thank him and the rest of the soldiers for all their effort.

Now looking closer at the poem, well actually at the very end, he repeats the phrase “Why don’t they come?” (lines 45 & 46). Now what I wonder is who he means. Does he mean the nurses to lay him down on bed or does he mean something else maybe death? What do you think it means?