Like Thomas Farjeon wrote poetry regarding her experience during The Great War, Farjeon was not an active participant in the war but she did maintain correspondence with both Thomas another officer Victor Haslam short installments of her works (Poetry). Farjeon would continue to write and publish until her death in 1965.
Farjeon’s poem “Now That You Too” deals with the torment of having to watch a loved one depart for war with the speaker drinking in every last detail of their final meeting in case it would be their last. The sorrowful love sonnet is written in the Shakespearian style by dividing the sestet into a quatrain and final couplet. The first stanza reflects her love who “must shortly go” (1) bringing the focus to English society during the “bloodshot years” (2) of where an entire generation of young men was lost to the war effort. In the last line of the first stanza the speaker understands the toll on this generation of English