There Was Crimson Clash of War
There Was Crimson Clash of War - meaning Summary
Innocence Confronted by Chaos
The poem compresses a violent scene into stark images: battle turns earth and lives to ruin, women weep and children flee. A single innocent voice asks why, and the surrounding multitude replies with an overwhelming, confused noise. The poem argues that complexity and rhetoric cannot clarify the moral or human reasons for suffering; the child's simple question exposes the failure of explanation amid catastrophe.
Read Complete AnalysesThere was crimson clash of war. Lands turned black and bare; Women wept; Babes ran, wondering. There came one who understood not these things. He said, "Why is this?" Whereupon a million strove to answer him. There was such intricate clamour of tongues, That still the reason was not.
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