There+Was+No+Civil+War

= "There Was No Civil War" by Ronnie Hatfield =  ** This poem was enjoyable for me. Most people who enjoy poems, will enjoy this poem because it gets its point across and I think it is easily understood. Thi poem has an A/B rhyme scheme, which means that every other line rhymes. It also has 4 lenghty stanzas, each one having a different topic. My favorite two lines in the whole poem is: ** //"We were a totally separate nation, with our own power to legislate, So us Southerners prefer the term, of “War Between the States//.”

These were my favorite two lines because I don't think that I would have really thought of the Civil War as a "war between the states" and I doubt that anyone else, accept the author would have thought of it that way either. The mood of this story; I think that it is humorous in a way and the fact that the poem rhymes adds to that element. On the screen (or on paper) this poem has no particular form that it was written in. When I read this poem, I see someone from the north during the days of the Civil War announcing the words of this poem out loud to some Southerners. I think the author was trying to convey that image, because of the way the poem is written in dialogue. There is also some figurative language in this poem. Most of it is in the last stanza: That, my friend, is pure aggression, and it was brought about by greed,

//"And aggression is the water, that sprouts secession’s seed! So you’d best rewrite your history books, they’re in error like they are, And for once admit, y’all done us wrong, because THERE WAS NO CIVIL WAR//!//"// The first line in that stanza is a metaphor and it is the only metaphor in the whole poem. I think that the purpose or the meaning of this poem is for the author to explain and express why he thinks there was no Civil War. I honestly can't relate to this poem in any way I can just say that I like it.