What is the soldier's "office"? Is it nice and safe like an office in a city, reached by train? Is it clean and dry as opposed to the trenches lashed by rain? Might a soldier in the trenches of World War I (or any war) "dream" of baseball bats and picture shows and a nice job in an office, riding in a train to get there from a nice, safe, dry home? The soldier's job is no office and he doesn't get there on the Long Island Railroad or the train from
Greenwich into The City.
"Dreamers" ends with the image of a man going to an office by train. Why do you think Sassoon chose to end the poem with this image?
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