1. The Last Laugh
By Wilfred Owen

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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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.

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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