'The Last Meeting' Analysis

• 'The Last Meeting' was written to remember Siegfried Sassoon's friend, David Thomas. 
• Enjambment used throughout to show the war was continuous//gets across Sassoon's ideas clearly and elegantly, as he is able to carry his ideas throughout the poem. 
• ''I will go up the hill once more to find the face of him that I have lost'' - personal pronouns// may be that he is going to one last battle and he believes this will be payback for the loss of his friend//may be a metaphor for trying to come to terms with his friend's death.
• ''From the earth that might not keep him long'' - body may be destroyed from the fighting the men do.//loss of his presence from the atmosphere.  
• Stanza 2 recalls Sassoon's early impressions of Flixecourt (commune of Northern France).
• ''A little longer i'll delay, and then he'll be more glad to hear my feet'' - he will wait a bit longer until he dies and joins David Thomas in after-life. 
• ''But he will loom above me like a tree'' - David will be watching over Sassoon. 
•  ''Quick shattering war leapt upon France and called her men to fight'' - used to emphasise how quick the outbreak of war was as men were forced into going to war immediately and to leave their lives behind.
•  ''But now they slept; I was afraid to speak'' - semi-colon used to show the impact the deaths in the war had on the other soldiers.
• ''I called him, once; then listened: nothing mixed:'' repetitive usage of colons to create pauses in the sentence and to show Sassoon's uneasiness at his friend's death.
• ''The innocence that strives me''- imagery of the naivety of the soldiers due to their ages. 
• ''I know that he is lost among the stars'' - he is coming to terms with the loss of his friend; something which may have been his been his goal at the start of the poem.
• ''Though his hushed voice may call me in the stir of whispering trees...of brooks that leap and tumble down green hills...'' - nature reminds him that his friend's spirit lives on. 
• ''And youth that dying, touched my lips so strong'' - imagery// death has made him fully understand the reality of war and how the young boys are suffering so brutally.