Analysis : Eight Hundred and Eleven

As M.H.Abrams mentioned in the Mirror and the Lamp,

The work of art is conceived to reflect the ideal more accurately than does imperfect
Nature itself (p.42)
our reality could be reflected in the literary work more idealistically than our actual life.

The narrative in this poem comments the atrocity and absurdity of war with solemnity and sublimity. The narrative describes scathingly the futility at the end of war and the calamity caused by war.
The narrator arouses the reading audiences¡¯ attention to the decline and fall of the aggressive mighty power by recounting ¡° Yes, thou must droop; thy Midas dream is o`er; The golden tide of Commerce leaves thy shore¡±(61-62)
What we try to illuminate at this point of view could be classified into three categories.

1. How can we relate the conceptualized meaning of War with the emblem and the significance of the author¡¯s own words?

The narrator cardinally feels the bitterness of disillusionment on the war. The ...