“Someone” is displaying humanity in the midst of the inhumanity of war. The ultimate demonstration of how the poem is intended to be interpreted as anti-war literature which is against the concept of war in general and not merely under certain specific circumstances is that the main the character in the story is only described simply as “Someone.” He is a mysterious unknown figure who braves the unpredictability of those occasions when the heat of the battle simmers down enough to allow him onto the beach so he can drag bodies from the surf and bury them in the sand. When the speaker observes that it is unknown if they fought as enemies or if they “fought with us” this information informs not just the anonymity of the soldiers, but the indeterminacy of allegiance of the speaker which serves to further universalize the circumstances being described. They are the victims of an unidentified battle taking place in the North Africa theater of World War II. The dead sailors are the force driving the narrative of the poem. The narration of the speaker is delivered in third-person perspective, detached from active participation and emotionally detached. As a character, the role is similar to that of a voice-over narrator of a film by an actor not actually playing a role in the story. The speaker of the poem is unidentified and unspecified. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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