Owen's language in his war poetry is removed but still bitter and angry. Owen almost never refers to the narrator or the characters in his war poems by name, which suggests a mental distance between the poet and his subjects. Owen's refusal to use names for most of his characters also shows the isolating effect of the war. Soldiers arrive at the front as strangers to the veterans who are already there, and it is often pointless to get to know the new arrivals as they may be injured or killed the very next day