"For the Fallen" is a poem that I felt had a very obscure way of looking at war. Laurence Binyon –the author-, is a very great writer who has an intellectual mind, although he is also a very traditional thinker, which was common in that era. His poems had the ability to encourage people into the view of thinking that is wasn't as bad a situation as everyone thought. This poem was also written to encourage the men of Britain to fight in World War One, to volunteer and fight for their country. In addition it was written to comfort the people who lost their families in the war. He has written this poem almost like a hymn or prayer to praise those who lost their lives. This is also a poem typical of the thoughts of many people of that time.
             Binyon starts the poem by likening Britain to a mother of all the soldiers who have passed away overseas in the war effort. He does however say that she is giving thanks that her children have died in such a honourable way. This gives us a strong picture of Britain being a mother and mourning over her dead children, as a real mother would grieve. He states that she is mourning because she has lost a part of herself when he writes
             "Flesh of her Flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
             Fallen in the cause of the free."
             This also shows he truly believes that each and every life lost was important and should be thought of and praised. The author uses alliteration of the words 'Flesh' and 'Spirit'.
             In the second stanza he speaks of grief and desolation and also how there is music even in this kind of situation, which would usually be paired with pain and not such a happy
             thing such as music. He also speaks of the patriotism and how proud we should be of all these men; he speaks of how they have died a magnificent and majestic death, we get this impression when he writes
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