In the first stanza of the poem, preparations for John Brown going to the war were being talked about. John Brown was off to fight in a war “on a foreign shore.” His mother was very proud to see his son “straight and tall in his uniform and all.” Read summary of John Brown
In the first stanza of the poem, preparations for John Brown going to the war were being talked about. John Brown was off to fight in a war “on a foreign shore.” His mother was very proud to see his son “straight and tall in his uniform and all.”
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Before going off to fight in the war, “war” was a matter of pride for John Brown. On the day he was leaving, he “stood straight and tall in his uniform and all.” But once he faced the cruelties of the war, he realized that it was not the enemy whom he was trying to kill but another human being. He uRead more
Before going off to fight in the war, “war” was a matter of pride for John Brown. On the day he was leaving, he “stood straight and tall in his uniform and all.” But once he faced the cruelties of the war, he realized that it was not the enemy whom he was trying to kill but another human being. He understood that soldiers are puppets in a war, killing each other or die trying. The barbaric nature of the war affected John Brown both physically and mentally.
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