Today I will be analysing a poem entitled "Children in the Darkness".

This poem summarises the tragedy and despair of war itself. In the first stanza of the poem, the line "There are children in the darkness who someone will teach to fight" emphasizes the extensive influence of war, spreading to even young and innocent children.

In the second stanza of the poem, the lines "And these children are not free" and "To this door there is no key" further emphasizes the lack of freedom accompanied by war, and the consequences war might bring towards the children's future, in terms of education etc.

In the third stanza of the poem, the author reflects on how someone could at least sympathize with these children by "simply lighting a candle","give them half a chance","teach them how to read" and "teach them how to dance".

However, in the fourth stanza of the poem, the author contemplates about the survival of these children, whether they would be "consumed" by the war, their "blood poured down some endless and thirsty hole".

In the last stanza, the poem goes full circle by reiterating the word "darkness". As such, it gives the reader a feeling of certain injustice and sympathy toward the children, as they had died before they had even started to experience life.

Overall, in this poem there are several cases of conflict.

The first conflict is between sympathizing with the children in contrast to letting the war "consume" them.

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