War affects us
One of the major themes found in the poems is the idea that a war affects the people in ways they could never imagine to be possible. The author talks about how war kills the heart of the people and how the war transforms the heart of the people into something ugly, a dead organ affected by gangrene. The war also has the power to affect a society’s belief system, killing the old Gods and creating new ones. This shows that war affects the way a society functions and that war can completely destroy a country’s foundation and build a completely new one from scratch.
Happiness and the Gods
The author mentions the Gods numerous times the Gods and the feelings connected with being close to a certain deity; the only time when she was happy was when she was in the arms of the Gods and when because of various circumstances the Gods were no longer present in her life, she suffered. What the author suggests through this is the idea that humans need to feel the presence of a God in their lives in order to be happy and that when God is absent the human-kind suffers as a result.
The power to rebuilt
The poems analyze the way war affects society and the destruction it leaves in its wake. While some of the poems are gloomy and dark, the author still maintains a slither of positivity and mentions the possibility of rebuilding even after major catastrophic events. The power the human society has to rebuilt is one of the major themes in the poems and through this the author balances the scale when it comes to the tone used in the poems.
