Critical Appraisal of 'Futility' Jaffar Al-Rikabi 12 - 2 "Do they matter? -those dreams from the pit? ... You can drink and forget and be glad, And people won't say that you're mad..." Siegfried Sassoon, "Does it matter?" August 1914, Britain declares war on Germany and the First World War begins. A war that brings about the deaths of millions of men, the destruction of land to a scale unseen before, and after four years of fighting, the war …showed first 75 words of 1605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1605 total…and destructive to man and nature alike. Much of the stylistic points are also used in Owen's later poems 'Disabled' and 'Dulce et Decorum est' which through a more extensive use of linguistic devices reflect a more horrible and poignant reflection of war... "...But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime... As under a green see, I saw him drowning..." Wilfred Owen, 'Dulce et Decorum est'