Analysis this poem!!!!!

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On Receiving News of the War

BY ISAAC ROSENBERG
Snow is a strange white word;
No ice or frost
Have asked of bud or bird
For Winter’s cost.
Yet ice and frost and snow
From earth to sky
This Summer land doth know,
No man knows why.
In all men’s hearts it is.
Some spirit old
Hath turned with malign kiss
Our lives to mould.
Red fangs have torn His face.
God’s blood is shed.
He mourns from His lone place
His children dead.
O! ancient crimson curse!
Corrode, consume.
Give back this universe
Its pristine bloom.
                         (Cape Town, 1914)
Could anyone help me analyze this poem, my head is exploding because of this poem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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  1. It seems the start is establishing that wintery conditions have taken over the world even though it is not winter. I take this to be a metaphor for the harshness brought by war. At the end the poet is asking for the return of spring/summer, i.e. requesting an end to war. For me the most chilling part is ‘No man knows why’ indicating that even the people who have caused the carnage have no reason for it.

    Just to get you started.