E.E Cummings Untitled

"who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"

First off, I rather enjoyed this peom's stream of consciousness vibe. I enjoyed the beginning as he went from one song to another idea to another American - Patriotic song. Now, i chose these last three lines because they were rather powerful. I don't know why, but these last three lines and the whole poem really remind me of the many hard fought battles of the Revolutionary war. Maybe im thinking out of context, but the first line of these three lines puts the image in my head of side of the army that has to sit and wait to be shot, or to survive. The rush of the lions occurs as both sides rush at one another after the "stand still and die" portion of the battle. As for the last two lines, i just feel that it's the voice of anti war advocates who think that any man having the desire to fight in a war is idiotic.

In concordance to Night, the line, "why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-iful than these heroic happy dead", it kinda reminds of when Eliezel and his father were running and running to get closer to the center of Germany and alls they felt was the wish to die. Like as they were lying in this snow, most alive people would hate to lay in the snow for so long, but especiallly Eliezel, he felt the snow as a warming blanket. As for the the three words: "heroic happy dead", i think of Anja. She was heroic in the sense that she survived the holocaust, so she should have been happy BUT in the end, she ended up dead. It's like she went through a tripple bipolar cycle, heroic - happy - boom! dead.