Summary Of War By Ann Haley

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The poem shows how utterly absurd war is and how being so patriotic in this time frame is equivalent to a death sentence. As Haley mentioned, this poem was written in 1926 following the First World War. The speaker references a few times to war: “thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry” (7) “… What could be more beaut-/iful than these heroic happy dead/who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter/they did not stop to think they died instead” (9-12). As the title, may suggest, (and I’ll put this with punctuation for emphasis) Next to, of course, god… America… I. The title itself suggests an order of importance and power. Above all there is God, then America and patriotism followed lastly by your own self- putting less meaning on your