Futility 1918 Death

soldier’s body which has been possessed of life as a woman’s body is possessed of her

unborn child , is delivered , as it were ,of life by the bullet that kills him , as the woman might

be delivered of her child by abortion. This result in both cases is unnatural death by violent

interference with creative processes.(White;1969,61)

The Poem Futility 1918 juxtaposes the purposeful endeavour with sterility , man and nature a

birth and death ; in attempt to pity the dead solider who laid in the snow of France: Move him

intothe sun-/Gently its touch awake him once,/(Sasson;1921,1/2.p25) Towards the end of the

first section “The Burial of the Dead” Eliot directly refers to the anarchy of death caused by

war and hopes sarcastically