Topic > Analysis of the poem The Last Laugh - 1717

States: "At the same time, this reading, I think, adds a new resonance to the poem's specification of the horror and cost of war" (Hughes 1). This quote suggests the insight that war is a disturbing experience in the minds and bodies of soldiers who have never faced the psychological effects of war. Hughes discusses the effects of the war: “On the one hand, then, the inimitable account of the reduced state of the soldiers, and on the other, the evocation of what is experienced, despite the dehumanizing factors of the situation, as a common predicament . " (1). The reduced state of the soldiers could be the appearance of the body and their actions, such as being "bent double like old beggars", "drunk with fatigue" or "marching asleep". These factors dehumanize the soldiers on the battlefield, which shows that war turns them into weak people and an unstable mental state One of the soldiers' traumatic experiences reveals that it “does not stabilize in an objective scene, as does the disturbing image of the man who. is drowning in a “green sea” cannot simply be processed psychologically” (1). This also refers to the effect of soldiers on the cost of war. They not only encounter the disturbing sense of reality on the battlefield, but they also have to face their possibilities