english component

Write before you read:
A time when people had to obey even though they might not have wanted to, was when the first atomic bomb was dropped from American troops. The people who were in charge of dropping it might not have wanted to because they realized that it would kill millions of people but they had to obey the military commanders who thought I best to do so and end a war. I think military commanders have to enforce harsh discipline because if they want everything to go the way they planed, they can’t have a bunch of people messing around and not obeying orders. I think it is important for the military to work as a team because every time you do, you can get more things done and things work out better. I also think that your military would be stronger as a whole if they are pulled together. If troops aren’t kept under control, you have a bunch of people not following orders and people have a greater chance of getting killed if they are going and doing what they want which eventually comes down to loosing the war.

Poem:
This poem is about 600 soldiers who marched into war and obeyed their commanders without question. When they got there, they fought bravely and nobly and eventually won the battle and what was left of them came back proudly. The poet uses a lot of repetition in this poem like: the six hundred, valley of death, mouth of hell, cannons in front, behind and to the sides. He uses these to let the reader constantly know what was going on and how many men that had to obey orders. He also uses metaphors like valley of death and mouth of hell to show how evil and fearful war actually is.