"And the father wrote right back,
'Please don't write such depressing letters. You're upsetting your mother.''
Question 1 asked whether the poem was dramatic or situational irony. I don't think it is dramatic because that is discrepancy between what the speaker says and what the poem means. I don't think this is the case because the speaker is describing a soldier talking about mundane things, but then when he describes something real about the war, the mother can't take it. I believe that this directly relates to the speaker's message: America would rather ignore the violence of war and pretend it isn't happening than accept it. It is situational irony, a discrepancy between what one expects to happen and what actually happens. The mother repeatedly asks what the war is really like, but when the son tells her, she can not take it. She would rather pretend nothing is wrong. Literally, this is a mother's concern for her child, but the real message is that people would rather fake innocence and know the truth.
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