Capital G By Nine Inch Nails Poem Analysis

Can we attain world peace by ending all the wars in the world? Well, we might be able to but how will we end all the wars? In a world with over seven billion people, almost everyone is looking out for themselves. Everyone is facing difficult challenges on a daily basis, so they are busy being concerned about their own problems and not worrying about the circumstances of war victims. Although we often hear about the catastrophes faced by others in warzones through social media or the news, we tend to remain indifferent and continue pursuing our daily routines. Our indifference towards the killing of innocent lives in warzones is what allows for war to continue without ever ending. This act of indifference towards war victims could be seen throughout

Capital G is a poem about a person who trades his beliefs and morals in exchange for war. The speaker of the poem knows that he is partially responsible for the war as he elects the person who drops the bombs which kills many lives. Although he is aware of the consequences his decision lead to, he chooses to remain indifferent to the murder of innocent lives, so that his own life can remain the same. At the beginning of the poem, this could be seen when he refers to the victims of the war as, “motherf**kers who didn’t last too long.” The line shows how he has no respect for the war victims lives as they were a threat to his own life, so he portrays an uncaring and indifferent attitude towards the lives of the people who were killed by referring to them as motherf--kers. As the poem continues, he explains how he does not care for the problems around the world and justifies that the war victims would not understand what he was going through as “You haven’t had enough to know what it’s like.” This line shows how the speaker does not care for the suffering of war victims. He know the war victims are underprivileged as they “haven’t had enough” but doesn’t care if they are killed so that he can keep his privileged life say. As the poem ends, a refrain which is repeated twice in the poem has the lines, “Well I used to stand for something but now I’m on my hands

The poem is about a person who produces bombs for a living but does not blame his job for the killings of war victims. Throughout the poem, the speaker tries to convince the reader that he is not responsible to the war by giving excuses of why his job is necessary. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker says, “and making bomb parts is what I do, but I have a grocery cart to fill.” These lines showcase how the speaker is indifferent to the lives lost because of the bombs he creates, instead he cares more about the money he earns from the job. As the poem progresses he explains how his bombs only affect people in foreign lands who he cannot see, hear or know. He also believes that the bombs are there to free the war victims, “The reason they are killed is to set them free.” By distancing himself from the people affected by his bombs he shows how he is indifferent to their lives. He does not care that the person may have a family, be a mother or a child, instead he believes all the victims lives are terrible and the death caused by his bombs allow him to be their savior. Then, at the end of the poem, the speaker repeats the line, “I can’t control what my hands produce. This line symbolizes how the speaker has been creating excuses throughout the poem to justify his job. In fact, he knows what he is doing is