In the Modern era, many writers wrote about the many futile tasks they had to perform. A futile task would be any purposeless one. One of the many themes that occurred in a lot of writers’ poems is futility, which could be a person, behavior, or a task. The people in the Modern era were so focused on this theme of futility because everyday lives were changing rapidly. One work that exemplifies this really well is “S.I.W” by Wilfred Owen. His poetry describes the grotesque reality of the front-line of WWI. This poem concentrates on the meaning of existence, and the futility, or pointlessness, of war and inevitability of death. Another work that exemplifies this is “Dead Man’s dump” by Isaac Rosenburg. Both authors are veterans and wrote war
