What do you think about the poem "Memorial Day for the war Dead"?

Question

Memorial day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a woman that has left you. Mix sorrow with sorrow, like time-saving history, which stacks holiday and sacrifice and mourning on one day for easy, convenient memory. Oh, sweet world soaked, like bread, in sweet milk for the terrible toothless God. "Behind all this some great happiness is hiding. "No use to weep inside and to scream outside. Behind all this perhaps some great happiness is hiding. Memorial day. Bitter salt is dressed up as a little girl with flowers. The streets are cordoned off with ropes, for the marching together of the living and the dead. Children with a grief not their own march slowly, like stepping over broken glass. The flautist's mouth will stay like that for many days. A dead soldier swims above little heads with the swimming movements of the dead,

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Answer 1

i would say its takes a unrealistic look at the day, yes while some may just view it as another holiday (off work and off school) many do really honor the fallen soldiers and the ones who contributed to what they thought was our best interest. the purpose of the day is to honor those who have passed on, more then the conditions which caused them to fall, the only happiness i can see in it is that we do, as a nation, honor those who gave their lives, rather then totally forgetting them, i am certain their families and friends remember them every day!
as to the "children with grief not their own", children should be taught the history of humankind, both of their families and their community, its healthy for them to grieve, and be sad for the passing of others, while at the same time being happy for the life that was lead, the acts done by the departed
so i think this is a very dark, one-sided look at the whole day