Poet's Use Of Mockery As Diction In Poem

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status of the majors to a false superior position. "Scrap" makes it seems as
if the soldier's death occurred on a playground, not a battlefield. It seems to
trivialize war in general.

"And when the war is done and the youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed."

The poet's last lines give the reader an insight into the true wishes of the
soldier. The youth stone dead allow the reader to acknowledge the finality of
death and the wasted lives of the young soldiers while the old, fat men are
allowed the luxury of living to old age and then dying in their own beds.
"Toddle" is a word that not only describes the gait of the fat, old men but also
the irony of the youth stone dead and the fat, old men waddling home. Through
his use of mocking diction, the poet conveys his disgusted attitude towards the
toddling old men dying in their beds while the good die ...

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