For The Fallen Poem Analysis

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Explication of Robert Binyon’s “For The Fallen”

“For The Fallen” by Robert Binyon is about our fallen servicemen and servicewomen who fought for us. Describing how we will not see them again and how they will not be returning home.

This poem is a quatrain poem with seven stanzas, in every stanza lines two and four rhyme, the remainder do not. The first stanza tells the readers about the soldiers dying and the families mourning. The second stanza talks about the hardness of grieving. The third stanza describes the actual death of the fallen. Next in stanza number four we are told that the fallen will not grow old as we do. Enforcing the sadness of this poem. Stanza number five continues on with what the dead will miss in life, making the reader feel gratitude for all that we have. The second last stanza tells us that the fallen knows how grateful we …show more content…

Nothing makes me more angry then people disrespecting the dead. The soldiers paid the ultimate sacrifice when they gave their lives for us. This poem puts those who read it into the shoes of the grieving loved ones. It makes them understand what the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters of the warriors went through. One other reason is that it made me realize how my life would be if I lost my brother to war. That thought scares me more then anything on this earth. This is why “For the Fallen” by Robert Binyon is included in my anthology.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and

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