A Soldier Comments

En som har tagit hand om sina barn är Pernilla Wahlgren. Ja, dom blir ju bara fler och fler. Det är 100,000 totalt med alla, som vi inte har plats för.

Powerful and worthwhile words. Thank you.

I am memorizing this one for a school project and it is going very well! ! !

very good poem i should like it

gtf mad come on write proper poems

Beautiful and raging in fire

I love this poem it is great.

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Good poetry, thanks for sharing

Excellent marvellous outstanding amazing

i like your lovely poem, thanks for sharing.10++++

I really like you poem Mr.Frost.My grandfather was a soldier.

conflicts need soldiers and soldiers need conflicts

I likes this poemon its styles and meaning.

i lik dis pom

A perfect description about a soldier.

Awesome I like this poem, check mine out

Hey Mr Poet Doctor... Are you sure you aren't his reincarnation? :) Sorry for the crude emoticon.

Really touching... a fine tribute to the horrors of war. I wish Robert Frost were still alive.

I interpret this poem as: The narrator is walking on the grounds of an ancient battlefield. He stumbles upon a weathered spear (lance) that is still stuck in the ground (don't ask me why the lance is still there, it just is) . Unlike most people who approach the spear and think nothing worthy of its target, the narrator sees that this spear is there for a reason, visioning the last seconds of a dying man's life at the end of this spear (his body rotted away long ago) . The narrator breaks his day dream and thinks about how men today are now shooting rockets at one another for the same reasons their ancestors threw that spear eons ago. He sees the rockets of today as the spears of tomorrow, future generations will see rocket parts lying around and wonder, What was so important that it had to result in killing and death? (They make us cringe for metal-point on stone) He relapses back into his daydream about the dying warrior. He now knows that there is something bigger at play here (But this we know, the obstacle that checked) . The spear that tripped the soldier's body, killing him, released his spirit. His spirit then moved into the next realm of existence (Heaven) which is further away than anything man can throw/launch at. In essences, the larger work at play here was that it was the soldiers destiny to die at that place at that exact time.