Which line(s) refers to the husbands fragility?
"Porcelin collar bone"
"Rudder of shoulder-balde"
"Grazed heart"
Which word(s) have military references?
"Parachute"
"punctured"
"Porcelain"
"Collar-bone"
The verbs in the poem are used to show the hard and horrible work the husband had to do when he was in the army.
Why does the last sentence in the poem use a pair of commas?
To add information about the husband
For extra detail
To make the reader pause
Becasue the poet felt like it
What is the poem about?
A wife looking at her dead husband in a morge
A wife trying to reconnect with her husband after he comes back from the war
Its trying to persuade people to join the armed forces