Imitation #2

The War Drags On by Mick Softley

It is about the Vietnam War, specifically a soldier whose story is being told in the poem. The context of the poem is primarily the situation on how now matter what happened, the war dragged on causing new problems. I would have to say this song is a critique because it focuses on all the problems and in itself discuses all of the bad aspects of the vietnam war, and the unnecessary actions that were taken during the time. The song itself classifies as a narrative poetry, because it is telling the story of a soldier named Dan, but it also does it in a way that describes the war itself and all the horror that was caused. We also see some end rhyming, especially with some of the stanzas where every other sentence ends in the same word, so it would go "bones" as the end, then "house", then "bones, then "house" as the ends of each of the sentences, which really stress the meaning of the words and place an emphasis on their meaning. The tone of the poem is also very sorrowful and it's full of deep, rich language which add to the grief and pain that the Vietnam War brought.