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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.
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Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks The impression we get from the final months of war from this extract are that it is long and drawn out process, that memories from home are fading because of the long time they have been in the war, this is shown in the beginning of the extract; "Seemed so long ago that it felt as though someone else had lived it for him." He is saying that he doesn't even recognise his own life when he looks back on it, as if it were lead by a stranger. The tone of the poem seems melancholy and drab, like he is trying to pass the time, he tries to write but he cant, there are guns firing in the distant, and he describes them as a; "rumbled train through the embankment." He is saying that the noise is a common one which he recognises and is no longer shocking anymore it...
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