#13 APO 96225

Throughout this poem, examples of irony are used. My group thought that maybe it was a mixture of both dramatic irony and situational irony. The situational comes into play when the soldier writes his mom and tells him "sure rains a lot here", and " you ought to see the funny monkey's". But when the mother replies and tells him not to hold back and he rights what is really going on, the father tells him not to write things so depressing. It is situational because they want to hear the truth but they can not handle it when they are told. Also, there is an implied dramatic irony. As readers we know right away the struggles the soldier is going through. We can tell that his lines are understatements in his first letters. When is parents recieve the letters, they too realize the truth.