Ballad Of The Green Beret Analysis
The first song is Masters of War, it was written during the Vietnam war (Wib Team, 2015). it is a fierce and angry song. There is curse that writer wants a commander of war dies in line 57-64. The lyrics are against the government and the military because this song demonstrated that young men were deceived to go to die in the war. In line 17, “Like Judas of old” it refers to Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus by telling the soldiers who Jesus was and resulted in Jesus being arrested. It like the commander who lies and convinces them that they must fight for saving country and they will be the heroes. He betrays innocent young men. Moreover, the commander didn’t do anything about saving country. He just orders soldiers to fight with antagonists,
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The writer looks proud of being a soldier and It is the pride and honor of being chosen to wear the Green Beret. This song was written by then Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler when he was training to be a Special Forces medic (Wikipedia, 2014). This song wants to show how soldiers honorable for example, in line 7-8 says “One hundred men will test today But only three win the Green Beret”. these lines show the difficulty of being soldiers and hardness to get Green Beret. In line 9-10, “Trained to live off nature's land Trained in combat, hand-to-hand” It also shows that how hard they work. They must live in wild for training to being strong military. However, this song gives a proud but also heartbroken view of the war in line 17-20, “Back at home a young wife waits Her Green Beret has met his fate”. This song wants to show their family afraid that someday they could get the bad news that their lover had been …show more content…
The song talks about William McBride died in nineteen years old and many soldiers died in the war but they willing to die. They may think that dying is a good and honor for their country. However, there are questions to listeners that would this war end by war?”. This is a negative way of war. People in world war I killed each other for no reason but they have to do because it is a duty of soldiers. All Soldiers of each side have the duty for their country that is killing the enemy. It makes them do not see the value of
The writer looks proud of being a soldier and It is the pride and honor of being chosen to wear the Green Beret. This song was written by then Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler when he was training to be a Special Forces medic (Wikipedia, 2014). This song wants to show how soldiers honorable for example, in line 7-8 says “One hundred men will test today But only three win the Green Beret”. these lines show the difficulty of being soldiers and hardness to get Green Beret. In line 9-10, “Trained to live off nature's land Trained in combat, hand-to-hand” It also shows that how hard they work. They must live in wild for training to being strong military. However, this song gives a proud but also heartbroken view of the war in line 17-20, “Back at home a young wife waits Her Green Beret has met his fate”. This song wants to show their family afraid that someday they could get the bad news that their lover had been …show more content…
The song talks about William McBride died in nineteen years old and many soldiers died in the war but they willing to die. They may think that dying is a good and honor for their country. However, there are questions to listeners that would this war end by war?”. This is a negative way of war. People in world war I killed each other for no reason but they have to do because it is a duty of soldiers. All Soldiers of each side have the duty for their country that is killing the enemy. It makes them do not see the value of