Lunch on Omaha Beach
...s of the four line sections in this poem refer to calmness. Using such phrases as “the day’s soft sea” or “The Sea makes the sounds of cows chewing through high grass.” There is calm before, and after a war or battle. In the poem the war had been over for sometime. No remnants of the war remained. The persona of the poem pours his last bit of red wine onto the sands to see the color of the beach that once was but is no more. Red wine is often used as a symbol of blood in religion. The poet’s attempt to express his feeling of war is strongly felt. The soldiers that fought this battle through their heroism and bravery have nothing. The Death and Chaos that has been brought by such wars should be left where it lay, to keep a strong and grim reminder to future generations of what war truly is. The sixth series of lines in this poem explains of a beast that awakens in flags. Perhaps speaking of what is inside man that creates such wars between countries that end in such decay. In the first few lines of the paragraph, it talks of the war being over. The “killers are killed, their violent rinds conveyed, and the beach is back to...