’great’ is irony and sarcasm and is suggesting the country is full of corruption and greed and the country is morally weak
•money is repeated this implies it is the root of human conflict
we (forgive us) we lived happily during the war
this quote is a confession as the war has finally caught up with him
•we lived is past tense because his comfort during the war has come to an end and he is now in danger, he has now changed a person and is no longer ignorant as the war has finally affected him
Invisible house by invisible house by invisible house-
The dash at the end could suggest he is cutting off his thoughts About war and he is deliberately being ignorant
•the quote shows how war is worsening and this is shown through the use of repetition and the pattern of three
The poem is written in a cyclical structure to show he never changed throughout
the narrator is ignorant, lazy, passive and selfish
