The fourth two lines are the second most powerful in the poem. They show that the soldiers who are fighting are dreamers when the guns start firing, and dream of things that most people take for granted, like a warm house, clean beds and there are beautiful wives who stay in their homes. The next four lines recount the horrors the soldiers endure, such as trenches infested with rats, flooded with rain and destroyed beyond repair, but the most moving first part of the poem appears here: "Dreaming of things they did with bats and bullets, and mocked by a desperate desire to win back,” this line of the poem is about the soldiers wanting to do things like normal people putting the war behind them and living in peace. The last line talks about how the soldiers want a break and wish they could work in an office. This poem is a big slap in the face to people who make fun of war and to those in it who wish to return to the simple things they once had, being a child whose grandparents were in the war and were lucky to talk with them.