The Last Laugh By Wilfred Owen

He who laughs last, laugh loudest The Title He who laughs last, laugh loudest

Subject of the Poem The Deaths of soldiers The Institutes and people the soldiers often refer for comfort The machines of war The Futility of the men’s desire to live against war

Theme / Concern The desire of the soldiers are deemed futile by the mechanization of war The poem is criticizing the institutes and people soldiers usually turn to during war to ease their pain The concern that the mechanization of war is getting out of hand and man has lost all control

Speaker of the Poem It is in a third person’s perspective

Tone It is a very depressing tone, reasons:- The men were being killed in the war The weapons were laughing at the futility of the soldier’s attempts to live.

Fire is a good servant but a bad master Form The last three lines of the last two last stanza out of line to symbolize how the weapons were going out of control Fire is a good servant but a bad master

Vocabulary The vocabulary in this poem is relatively simple It does have onomatopoeia and personification The soldiers are ambiguous

Imagery The imagery in this poem is sadistic The weapons or to be precise the mechanization of war laughs at the pain and suffering of the men The institutes and people soldiers often look to during war are not helping the soldiers live through the war

Rhythm and Rhyme It has a nursery rhyme like rhythm The Rhyme is mostly pararyhme but this only true for the first two lines of each stanza where the soldier is mentioned, when the weapons are mentioned, the rhyme is broken