Refer to first answer for a poem by Edna St Vincent Millay) Comments, feelings......?
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Apostrophe to Man Edna St. Vincent Millay (on reflecting that the world is ready to go to war again) Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out. Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing airplanes; Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade; Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose; Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies The hopeful bodies of the young; exhort, Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed; Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize Becateria harmful to human tissue, Put death on the market; Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out, Homo called sapiens.
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"The object of war,is not to die for your country,It is to make the other poor bastard die for his" Gen.George Patton
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I agree entirely with the sentiment. I am always shocked to discover feelings like this aren't new. I remember reading a number of poetic responses to the first world war and I just couldn't believe it: we had people who knew this, who were saying it all those years ago, and we're still doing this!? The last line is pretty cheesy, though. I think she'd have done better to leave it out. What does it even mean? (I do know what the words mean, but what's the point of the line?)
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