In “Soldier Rest,” Sir Walter Scott captures how inviting death can look to those caught up in battle’s throes.
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Memorializing Our Lost Innocence
Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.
Weep, For You May Touch Them Not
In his poem “Greater Love,” Owen describes two deaths. One is the physical death of soldiers, which is tragic enough. But the other death is also heartbreaking: the death of innocence that occurs when people become intimately acquainted with war.
