Don T Take My Darling Boy Away Comparison

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In this paper I will argue about the songs, “Your King and Country Want You” and “Don’t Take My Darling Boy Away”, as they both provide the attitudes of a the British nation in regard to the war of 1914. The songs were generally use to deliver messages across the country to spread ideas and thoughts of the event, whether it be support or opposition. Firstly, “Your King and Country Want You” was a song often performed at recruitment rallies, as a way to convince young men to enlist for military in the 1914. It is has a vibrant energy, as the singer delivers a message confidently despite distress. The song immediately expresses the need of soldiers by revealing that they’ve been watched. It addresses their great achievement in well-known games, that these men have willingly played, yet they’ve fail to take part in war, something ‘extremely honorable’. I believe that encouragement wasn’t its only intention, as it indirectly shamed and placed guilt upon young men who oppose in joining the military. Could you really be referred as a man when you refuse to your duty and protect, The song is an upbeat duet, where a male narrating a story and a mother pleading for no more involvement. It presents a sad, desperate and slightly angry tone, which shows the pain and suffering families have to deal with due to their lost. The starts off with the narrator introducing the position of the mother on her kneeling and praying for others who have go to the war, with her last son at her side. An uninviting yet awaiting knock at the door, revealing a captain who states that her son is wanted in the war. Instantly, without thought she submits in a desperate manner while lower herself, both literally and figuratively to captain, to not take her last hope. For she has, indeed, provided three sons and a husband for the war, as she had no choice or say in

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