"Base Details"
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I’d live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
You’d see me with my puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,
Reading the Roll of Honour. Poor young chap,
I’d say---I used to know his father well;
Yes, we’ve lost heavily in this last scrap.
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I’d toddle safely home and die---in bed.
The poem contrasts the young soldier with:

Question

"Base Details"
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,
I’d live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
You’d see me with my puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,
Reading the Roll of Honour. Poor young chap,
I’d say---I used to know his father well;
Yes, we’ve lost heavily in this last scrap.
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I’d toddle safely home and die---in bed.
The poem contrasts the young soldier with:

anonymous · Answer

A.	Other young soldiers
	B.	Those young men who are not in the war
	C.	Mothers of sons who do not want their sons to go to war
	D.	Older soldiers who send young men into the battlefield but who remain safe themselves.

anonymous · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

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