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WAR POEMS
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WAR POEMS I have chosen these three poems for their distinct difference in style and the poet's concept of war. THE THREE LADS by Elizabeth Chandler Forman Forman's, The Three Lads, tells us that it is a happy poem; happy in its naiveté. These three boys, of different nationality, are happy to be going to fight for their country. "Then hey! for our (righteous king) (noble tzar) (honest king) they cry". Each one believes God to be on his side; God is on the side of the right and since their king is right, therefore God will protect them from the foe. These boys have no concept of the horrors of war and therefore have no fear of it. They sing and laugh about a pair of blue eyes as they go to their death I think Forman is looking at war from a woman's point of view; probably a mother's. She...
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