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A March in the Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown is a poem depicting the true pain of war. The poem starts off with soldiers walking through the woods at night in dim-lit darkness. The chill of pain and sorrow of this melancholy environment is then brought out more as imagery strikes me with vivid details of a soldier lying on the floor slowly bleeding out to death with no one but our character there to assist him. Then our soldier looks up at his surrounding only to reveal dozens of fatally wounded soldiers. In this darkness the only light is one torch for all the soldiers to share. I feel as though this light might be symbolic of each individual soldiers hope and that because of all this pain and sorrow that they are experiencing, they do not feel like they have a chance at coming out of this war alive, and yet they must march onwards into battle. This poem demonstrates how war is not as honorable and prestigious as the government tries to make it appear. It is made to look appealing, and is trying to make you feel like you will be a war hero and everyone will honor …show more content…

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