The Last Laugh Poem Analysis

Wilfred Owen sets his poem based on war. He is well known for portraying his war poetry on the trench and gas warfare. Owen’s “The Last Laugh” is very short but significant because the poem is from the perspective of his first experience of war. Wilfred Owen wants his readers to think about the harsh conditions of war and how a soldier would feel in that perspective; the tragedy and sad emotions of soldiers who don’t get the last laugh since many of them die. To reference the title of the poem, the weapons would get the last laugh at the end of each stanza. He conveys his feelings on war by his use of imagery, his choice of words, the tone, and the structure of the poem. For every stanza, Wilfred describes each character with different backgrounds, uses personification, weapons to symbolize other people, and reveals a morbid tone. In “The Last Laugh,” Owen identify in which the guns and gas, the shells and shrapnel have the last laugh at the death of three …show more content…
The tone can be ironic, sarcastic, and morbid because the weapons laugh about the death of the soldiers. In each of the three stanzas shows the different ways in which the three soldiers died or how they expressed their deaths. The author’s poem is really effective because it consists of a sarcastic but morbid tone, a good choice of words, the use of personification, and onomatopoeias. Owen supports the idea that the weapons always laugh at the end in response to the death of each soldier. The weapons are laughing at the humans’ pitiful stand against them. This reinforces that weapons are deadly for humans. In this poem, Owen is successful at demonstrating to his readers how cruel and cold war is. He continues to use personification at the end of every stanza to show that weapons will always laugh last because in the hands of humans, they cause disaster and