War poetry-R and R 6 War Poetry T3 Online lesson #9

1.Sandburg was referring to the cannons that were attached to the warships.

2. The "jackies" referred to the sailors on the warships, preparing to go to war. They sang "war chanties" to motivate and boost their morale for war.

3. This methaphor meant that the gun would kill, while the shovel will bury the dead. These to items are inter-related, as both relate to death.

4. It shows that both the soilders and people were forced to work, and did so even if they did not want to. They obeyed obediently, the soilders obeyed to destroying the city, while the people obeyed to build back the city. This shows that they obeyed blindly, which shows the constrast with what they did, as they were forced to take down, but yet build the city back again.

5.These words are strong, yet negetive words, showing the harsh treatment towards those soilders and people. The persona uses these words as if he is giving commands, as if he is the leader. He does not care for the well-being of the people, as he uses such a harsh tone to treat them.

6.It is harder to building it back again. It will take years to build back a society, whereas it will take only a matter of days to take it down. For instance, the recent Japan Earthquake. It destroyed the city in a matter of minutes, but took them so much time and effort just to rebuild it.

7. The onomatopoeia in the first stanza are described to be getting more and more silent as it progresses through time, stating that in the future, weapons will produce no sound at all. The sounds may represent the our humanity left within us, as with these weapons, they may obliberate anything within there paths, not showing sympathy for those who died, showing that there is no more humanity left.

8. The president of Eygpt was kicked out of parliment as many had went on strikes and riots. They had rebelled against him, and he was eventually forced to step down, and "kicked under the dust".