Analyze of Poetry
THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS DO NOT SPEAK
By Archibald MacLeish
By Archibald MacLeish
Nevertheless they are heard in the still
houses:
who has not heard them?
They have a silence that speaks
for them at night and when the clock
counts.
They say, We were young. We have died.
Remember us.
They say, We have done what we could but
until it is finished it is not done
They say, We have given our lives but
until it is finished
no one can know what our lives gave.
They say,
Our deaths are not ours:
they are yours:
they will mean what you make them.
They say,
Whether our lives and our deaths were for
peace
and a new hope or for nothing
we cannot say:
it is you who must say this.
They say,
We leave you our deaths:
give them their meaning:
give them an end to the war and a true peace:
give them a victory that ends the war and a
peace afterwards:
give them their meaning.
We were young, they say.
We have died. Remember us.
THE ANALYZE OF POETRY
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Point of view
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Writers= she or he want to reminds
the young generations about their elders had been giving for them. They must to make it be useful like make a achievement
to make their country feels proud
·
Theme = the oblivious hero
·
Symbol = “They”
have a “silence” that speaks
o
“They” means an young soldier
o
“Silence” means they were dead
·
Simile
o
Nevertheless they are heard
in the still houses
o
for them at night and when
the clock counts.
o
Our deaths are not ours
o
our lives and our deaths
were for peace
o
give them a victory that
ends the war and a peace afterwards
·
Meaning
o
The meaning of that poem is tells
about the strunggle of the hero that has sacrifices their life for their young
generations. But their sacrificed has forgot by their generations. They
couldn’t reminded them directly. But, actually we must realized it by ourself
that we can life because of them.
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Rhyme
o Our deaths are not ours:
they are yours
“ours” and “yours” have same rhyme
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