war itself, the message of the poem is that soldiers although viewed as hated

killers that kill innocent victims the poem expresses the fact that the soldiers

are just like the "normal" person, the poem also consists of many thoughts

and doesn't single out one side or another this shows that is was probably

written by a observer of the war or someone that was directly involved in the

The first two lines of the poem sign is a great display of what people

make soldiers out the be and what a normal citizen pictures them as

"Citizens of Deaths gray land" a typical view of a solider that is fighting in a

war is a bringer of death and some one who does not think twice about

killing someone, but it is quickly countered buy telling th

here "Dreaming of things they did with bats and balls, and mocked by

The second two lines are a dramatic turn stating that as soldiers the

warm home, clean beds and there beautiful wives which are left at there

whose grandparents where in the war and got a chance to speak with them

Some common words found in the essay are:
Citizens Deaths, Dreamers WWI, poem soldiers, soldiers supposed, soldiers normal, normal people, normal person, talking soldiers,
Approximate Word count = 561
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)