'The Next War' clearly illustrates the soldiers' experience through Owen's monologue. Around the time "The Next War" was written, public sentiment at home was beginning to turn against the senseless, seemingly endless wave of massacres. Furthermore, this poem exposes comparisons between the gruesome war and those who foresaw and dreamed of the future, however, death itself becomes the enemy rather than the unfortunate soldiers who crumbled their dreams. “The Next War” is a poem that makes the reader see the experiences that the soldiers were going through that Wilfred Owen focused on. Death is personified in the octave “Sit down and ate with him, fresh and tasteless.” This phrase is an ironic way of thinking that soldiers would be afraid of dying and losing their lives. However, soldiers sit with death and eat with death. This is because they have seen many of their soldiers die and have inherited the nature of accepting death. Furthermore, as seen in the sextet “no soldier is paid to kick against his power”, it uses an extended metaphor. So, Owen is saying that death is too powerful and can't be avoided by anyone, so don't try to 'kick it' and according to Owen it's not the worst thing or the biggest evil there is. Likewise, “Insensibility” reiterates the soldier's experiences during the war. However, the soldiers in the poem are described in