The Send-off War is the main theme in all of Wilfred Owen’s poems and in “The send-off” it focuses on the response of the people at home to it’s events. The title itself is ironic for a send-off is usually a happy occasion of farewell and the send-off to war is more often than not a celebrated event. But Owen’s poem deals with harsh realism and argues that there is nothing to …showed first 75 words of 1008 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1008 total…three-lined stanzas, and followed by two line structures. “The Send-off” deals with the ideas of war itself, the effects of war on those who experience it first hand and ordinary peoples naive understandings of war. These ideas are conveyed through different means, such as language devices, sound devices, sentence structure and the overall structure. By using these techniques Owen has beautifully expresses his criticism of the slaughter of young men in the First World War.