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World War II Summary
Several sing-song stanzas extol the war as a time of revelry before an "echo" asks if anybody died.
World War II Analysis
This poem applies the structural doubleness of the blues and applies it to a topic not commonly treated by blues musicians: war. Here one voice sings the fun of war while the echo resounds the death toll of war, which can never honestly be called fun.
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This section contains 77 words (approx. 1 page at 400 words per page) |