Evaluating the importance of individuality and human dignity within the context of war, captures the destruction and loss of humanity within futile warfare. The intimate focus on a single moment separates ‘Futility’ from the rest of Owen’s poems, presenting a different side of war and importance of a single moment. The loss of individuality through war is explored as death consumes the soldiers, stripping them of their individuality. Futility presents the audience with a dying soldier whose comrades attempt to revive him by the power of the sun; in their world, one dominated by carnage and destruction the sunlight has become something sacred, divine. This is illustrated in the imperative tone and personification of the sun “move him into the
