Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Regeneration, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Masculinity, Expectations, and Psychological Health
War, Duty, and Loyalty
Male Relationships
Trauma and Mental Illness
Alienation vs. Belonging
Summary
Analysis
Owen pays another visit to Sassoon and they chat amiably about poetry while Sassoon complains about how much Rivers can push on certain subjects, such as Sassoon’s inability to visualize life after the war. After the war, Owen wants to raise pigs. True to his word, Owen brought some of his own poems, which he gives to Sassoon, he is particularly impressed by the longest one. Sassoon makes edits to a few of them and tells Owen he can only publish Sassoon’s work in the magazine if he will publish his own as well.
Once again, Owen provides Sassoon with the only friendship at Craiglockhart that has any sense of equality in it, though there is still some sense of teacher and student. However, Sassoon pays genuine attention to Owen in a way he does not even do with Rivers, suggesting that his personal affection for him is growing.
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