All That I Require Poem Analysis

In the song, “All That I Require” written by Radney Foster, the speaker conveys a theme of the political dangers of extremism and fascism. The line “I’ll make us strong again / you’ll sleep safely in your beds / I’ll reign down hell upon those dirty mongrels’ heads / And the blood of all your children is all that I require” directly correlates to pathos for the pity of the beliefs against previous fascists leaders like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini during WWII. Through this, he illustrates the errors on both sides of the arguments, making drama politically worse than it should be. One of the major literary devices used in the song is foreshadowing. He uses this to give suspense to his peers, displaying imagery to show that society tends to