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Analisis Of The Poem Dreamers

Dreamers

Dreamers is a WWI poem that is about the soldiers rather than the
war itself, the message of the poem is that soldiers although viewed as hated
killers that kill innocent victims the poem expresses the fact that the soldiers
are just like the "normal" person, the poem also consists of many thoughts
and doesn't single out one side or another this shows that is was probably
written by a observer of the war or someone that was directly involved in the
war itself.

The first two lines of the poem sign is a great display of what people
make soldiers out the be and what a normal citizen pictures them as
"Citizens of Deaths gray land" a typical view of a solider that is fighting in a
war is a bringer of death and some one who does not think twice about
killing someone, but it is quickly countered buy telling the reader that
although they are deaths soldiers they are not free from deaths fatal grasp
them selves and gain nothing from the fighting.

The second two lines are a dramatic turn stating that as soldiers the
stand starring destiny in the face to face, but is again turned as the thought
of the solider is that he isn't think ing about death but is thinking about
feuds, jealousies ,and sorrows, not exactly like a normal person but shows
that they are like "normal" people in the sense that they care about what
they have done.

The Third two lines are like the first talking about what a soldiers is
supposed to do followed but a dramatic line that shows that they as people
are not invisible, the first line states the soldiers are supposed to win giving
them a heavy burden that rest dead on there shoulders, but is yet again
turned around by the fact the writer lets us know that some come out in
body bags and some come out with the "fatal climax" which is that they
have to go fight a war that they don't wish to be a part of.

The fourth two lines are the second most powerful in the poem, it
shows that the soldiers who are...