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To Germany

BY CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY

You are blind like us. Your hurt no man designed,

And no man claimed the conquest of your land.

But gropers both through fields of thought confined

We stumble and we do not understand.

You only saw your future bigly planned,

And we, the tapering paths of our own mind,

And in each other’s dearest ways we stand,

And hiss and hate. And the blind fight the blind.

When it is peace, then we may view again

With new-won eyes each other’s truer form

And wonder. Grown more loving-kind and warm

We’ll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain,

When it is peace. But until peace, the storm

The darkness and the thunder and the rain.

“To Germany” is a poem by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY (1895-1915), he is the son of a William Ritchie Sorley, a professor of moral philosophy, the poem used personification, metaphor and anaphora to express the hate and repugnant to Germany, but still reflects the lax of the peoples when peace came. (Maybe this point is wrong)

The first stanza used personification and metaphor in “You are blind like us” and “And hiss and hate. And the blind fight the blind”, as you see there are to things are blind, one is Germany, and the other one is the peoples, Germany are “blind” because they didn’t care about the feelings of the citizens and just keep expanding there land, the peoples are “blind” because they don’t have a specific plan of whatever they wanted, also, they couldn’t chose the right leader because all they do is care about their friends and families, “the blind fight the blind” is also a allusion of public protest.

In the second stanza, “We’ll grasp firm hands and laugh at the old pain” reflects the lax and nerveless of people after war, (this may also reflects the release of the memories of wars)also, in the end of the poem, the author use parallelism to foreshadow world war two, which truly happened(he is a professor by the way).

In conclusion(conclution), this is a short poem that fully expresses the ruthless and blindness of Germany and the lax and nerveless of people after war, it use personification, metaphor and parallelism to better express it, but surely it is a very objectivity poem, but it also satire the people itself.