Futility, by the poet Wilfred Owen is an exploration of the question ‘what is our purpose?’. Owen tries to suggest that surely our purpose isn’t to kill each other in war. He personifies the sun describing it as a kind old man. this is an important imoortant aspect of the poem as it means that Owen believes the sun to be benovelent and will save the soldier Owen has come across. Because of Owens religious beliefs it is justified to infer that when he speaks about the sun he is actuall speaking about God.
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