In the poem, Futility, by Wilfred Owen is about how a soldier has recently died though we don’t know how or when. Owen appears to have known him and something of his background and he thinks about nature’s power to create life, setting it against the futility of extinction. In the first line,” move him into the sun.” Wilfred Owen talks about a group of soldiers trying to revive their friend with the help of the sun. In the 4th line, the young soldiers are being naive by saying, because the sun awoke him before, that it would do so again. In the 7th line the sun is referred to as god, as he says. ” The kind old sun will know.” At the end of this poem,the speaker has realised the futility of trying to rouse his command and also, we can feel a bit of anger as the speaker accuses the sun’s beams of being ‘ fatuous.’

This poem is about an old soldier telling of his experience of trying to revive his fellow soldier and the trauma that happened and stayed with him after his experience.