Memorial Day Figurative Language

The poem I have decided to do is Memorial Day for the War Dead By Yehuda Amichai, I choose this poem because I love reading about war and the struggles these people go through. War is not an easy thing to write about, because when you ask people about war, they don’t want to live through it again. “Behind all this some great happiness is hiding”
In This poem, the speaker is someone who is witnessing Memorial day, they most likely, were in the war. The message in this poem is that although people have died, life will keep going. They see the parades in the cities and think about the dead. The lines that lead me to this is “A little girl with flowers/ The flautist mouth will stay open for days”. The speaker’s attitude to the topic of war and Memorial day is calm, but has a lot of emotion. The mood in the poem, is sad and full of emotion.
These are in lines 7, 30, 31, and 32. Oh, sweet world soaked, like bread, means, that this world is soaked with blood from the war. A man whose Son died in the in walks the in the street like a woman with a dead embryo in her womb means, they both lost someone. A woman lost her son or daughter, While a man lost his son or daughter from war. The last one “Tree with a constant stare at the world. Is saying people are dying and nobody's doing anything about