"'Please don't write such depressing letters. "You're upsetting your mother."
The poem touches on war, and is meant to criticize it a bit. The sad situation of worrying parents writing to their son is revealed. Their anxiety for their son pushes them to want to know the truth about his life in the war. They push and push for answers and then finally get one, which is grim to say they least. The son reveals that he has killed. Then, the father says to not write such awful things because the mother cant handle it. There is situational irony in that one would expect the mother to be able handle what she so tirelessly asked for, the truth about the son's situation. When it is revealed, she doesn't like it and doesn't want to hear it. I personally thought the mother was kind of irritating. What did she expect to hear? She wanted the truth. I think she knows enough about war to foresee that her son may have killed someone.
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