alright ill analyze this one just for you guys out there:
to begin with, it is alluding to abraham sacrificing his own son to god; god testing his loyalty to him. just before abraham slit this sons throat, and angel appeared and replaced his son with a lamb.
had abraham slew his son it would have parralled the is cause, and ultimately the effects, of the great war on Europe. WWI was about pride and humiliation. one could argue that abrahams pride was hurt when he discovered that god was testing him. Had abraham decided to destroy his son, who knows the horrid repercussions. Perhaps Abraham would have died in Sodom, where he lived. Perhaps more than Sodom and Gamorah would ahve been purged of evil by fire and brimstone. This parrallels the purging of the Central Powers, quite evil in the eyes of the Aliies.
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to begin with, it is alluding to abraham sacrificing his own son to god; god testing his loyalty to him. just before abraham slit this sons throat, and angel appeared and replaced his son with a lamb.
had abraham slew his son it would have parralled the is cause, and ultimately the effects, of the great war on Europe. WWI was about pride and humiliation. one could argue that abrahams pride was hurt when he discovered that god was testing him. Had abraham decided to destroy his son, who knows the horrid repercussions. Perhaps Abraham would have died in Sodom, where he lived. Perhaps more than Sodom and Gamorah would ahve been purged of evil by fire and brimstone. This parrallels the purging of the Central Powers, quite evil in the eyes of the Aliies.
i tried..?r
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However, I must say, awesome poem. Them old-timey poets knew what they were doing.
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