Futility by Wilfred Owen

The poem "Futility" by Wilfred Owen is about a soldier who has died in the snow. The speaker wonders if the sun can bring him back to life, as it has the power to awaken seeds and warm the earth. The speaker questions why the sun bothered to wake the soldier, as it seems futile. Futility, by Wilfred Owen Move him into the sun, gently its touch awoke him once, at home, with spring of fields unsown. All ways it awoke him, even in France, until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now, the kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, woke once the clays of a cold star. Our limbs so dear achieved, our sides, full nerved, still warm, too hard to stir. Was it for this the clay grew tall? Oh, what made fatuous sunbeams toil to break her sleep at all?