The poem “Poem for War….Against War” is trying to give a clear vision to people that war is unnecessary and it causes hatred, reducing peace, love and harmony between people. The thematic connection between the poem and the story is that war just kills innocent people, for a solution that could have been negotiated through other ways like talking, but instead through violence, and most of the people serving in the war do not like violence but are still fighting because they have no other choice. In the beginning of the poem it says “Prisoners of war increase,” in war no one can go to prison for killing another because that is what war is all about; killing the opposite side. What the sentence is really trying to say is that, each day, many people are feeling like they have imprisoned themselves by serving the war, putting themselves in misery because they are killing many lives and they know those lives have loved ones that care about them and now those people are going to go through a lot of pain due to the lose of their beloved ones. This strongly relates to the sniper in the short story. “The sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered….His teeth chattered, he began to gibber to himself, cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody.” Here the sniper is showing great hatred to war and everything else because he understands that the enemy he killed may have been his foe but that foe was a beloved to another person, seeing someone’s loved one die, thinking how they may feel knowing that their beloved soul is lost forever probably feels like a knife going through the sniper’s heart.
Below is the poem "Poem for War...Against War":
Another day of fighting
Another day of wars
More casualties to count
More wounded mount
Prisoners of war increase
Propaganda consistently release
Who do we believe?
Missiles and bombs hit their targets
Occasionally, they stray- killing the innocents
Reality of wars becomes transparent
The cost is monumental
Affecting tearfully someone’s mother, father, sister, brother and more
A love one is gone forever
The conflicts continue
The cycle’s renewed
War for peace… a noble objective
Peace for war… an immoral exchange
For war… against war
A world divided… a world apart
Peace is held hostage
By man’s inability to love and live in harmony
Why do we fight, and kill one another?
It’s the question of the generations
Perhaps one-day war will be defeated…
And conciliation become the blueprint of existence
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