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- Describing a group of new soldiers departing for the trenches by train, ‘The Send-Off’ is one of Wilfred Owen’s best poems. ‘The Send-Off’ muses upon the unknown fates of those young men who left for war. Do they now mock the women who gave them flowers to wish them goodwill as they left for the horrors of the Front?
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A poem about the departure of soldiers to the front line in World War I, written by the British poet Wilfred Owen. The poem expresses the sadness and futility of the war, and the contrast between the soldiers' cheerful faces and their fate.
- Form and Tone
- The Send-Off Analysis
- Historical Background
- About Wilfred Owen
‘The Send-Off‘ is presented in four stanzas each of which is five lines long. Rhyme features heavily throughout the poem which has an ABAAB pattern and interestingly all of the “B-rhymes” are shorter lines. The rhyme pattern mixed with the sombre nature of ‘The Send-Off’ gives it an almost jarring quality. I think this is deliberate to emphasize th...
First Stanza
In the first line, the narrator offers our first contrast. The people are singing which is generally considered a positive and this stands in contrast to their environment described as a “darkening lane”. Another oxymoron is used as the trains members, ie the soldiers are said to look grimly gay. You can tell from the descriptions the narrator uses that these men are proud men. However the foreboding is evident as the stanza ends on the word dead. this is a classic example of the darkness tha...
Second Stanza
What is interesting about his stanza is the way that the narrator gives a brief descriptor to each of the people mentioned in the stanza apart from the guard, the porters are dull and the tramp is casual. What’s particularly interesting is the fact that you might consider all tramps to be fairly casual! The line about missing them in the upland camp is probably more poignant then at first suggested. It probably means they will be missed because the likelihood is that they will not be returnin...
Third Stanza
The first line of this stanza only adds to the feeling that there is a conspiracy afoot, the phrase “hushed up” especially. It suggests that nobody wants to talk about the uncomfortable truth, that a lot of people die in war. In the second line the narrator says “They were not ours” this could mean that the troops that have been sent to war were not owned by their country. They are not owned by anybody. It could be a statement to emphasize their humanity, perhaps? It then continues to refer t...
The original draft version of this ran as follows: On the face of it ‘The Send-Off‘ is about waving people off as they go off to war but this belies the poem’s dark under-current which suggests that ‘The Send-Off‘ is actually about death caused by war. Flowers are mentioned twice in the poem and these act almost as a metaphorfor the inevitable loss...
Wilfred Owen was a British poetof Anglo-welsh descent. He is known for his poems based on his experiences during the First World War where he fought as a soldier. His poems are often dark and gritty and do not put a positive spin on war at all, this is perhaps unsurprising given his service record which includes some time on discharge suffering fro...
Oct 22, 2018 · A short analysis of Owen's poem that depicts the departure of young soldiers for the First World War. The poem reveals the irony, horror and futility of the war through the contrast between the soldiers' appearance and their fate.
The troops have just come from a sending-off ceremony – cheering crowds, bells, drums, flowers given by strangers – and now they are being packed into trains for an unknown...
The Send-Off. Wilfred Owen. 1893 –. 1918. Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way. To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray. As men’s are, dead.
The Send-off. Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way. To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray. As men’s are, dead. Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp. Stood staring hard,
The Send-off, by Wilfred Owen. Down the close, darkening lanes they sang their way. To the siding-shed, And lined the train with faces grimly gay. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray. As men’s are, dead. Dull porters watched them, and a casual tramp. Stood staring hard, Sorry to miss them from the upland camp.
