Read the poem and answer the question Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown Always it woke him even in...

The theme of the poem is futility. The poem, "Futility" by Wilfred Owen, is about a soldier who has died in battle, and his comrades are attempting to move his body into the sun, hoping that the warmth of the sun might revive him. The speaker of the poem questions the point of life and the efforts of the sun to awaken the dead. The poem reflects the futility of war and the senseless loss of life. The final lines of the poem, "O what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" highlight the theme of futility, as the speaker wonders why the sun bothers to shine at all if it cannot bring the dead back to life.