The speaker is addressing to her husband. That person cannot hear nor understand what she is saying because he is not alive.

Her feelings for that person is full of love affection and devotion.

The attitude of speaker toward the war is bitter and full of sadness.

This person i.e. speaker's husband died in the war. As she has lost her husband, the speaker is alone in this world and she needs to bear all the sufferings. In this way, the person's fate has affected the speaker.

The theme of the poem is the love,affection, devotion and melancholy to the husband who had died in the war.

Tran's poem is full of images related to war and love. Roses, wedding gowns, tomb with green grass, medals, clouds, dress soaked in blood, the lifeless body and shrapnel are some obvious examples of imagery used in the poem. Among these, imagery of shrapnel made the greatest impression on me. I think the object of my choice expresses the bitterness of war most clearly. This image indicates that war has broken the speaker's life truly reflected by the tool to inflict the same.

The theme of "The Gift in Wartime" is to mourn the sadness and futility of lives lost in war. In the poem, the speaker, who has to faced the death of her beloved husband in a war, speaks directly to him, contrasting what she has offered and what she received.

In the poem, many figurative speech such as irony, imagery, anaphora, apostrophe are used. Irony takes place when the poet talks about the gift which is not a real gift but is infact grief and loss and sorrow. A grave and shrapnel as...