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What is the significance of this image in the poem?
You lean against a wall,
your several million lives still possible
and crammed with love, work, children, talent, English beer, good food.
This is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful parts of the poem, because it is showing the boy's life prior to war. He had friends, there was good food, and so much potential in their life ("your several million lives still possible").