Universal Soldier

Universal Soldier

In the first stanza of the poem "Universal Soldier," the poet Buffy Sainte-Marie was trying to say that all soldiers are different. Soldiers are different heights, ages and use different weapons. They  have different beliefs and different thoughts about killing. The poet is saying there has been soldiers throughout time. For thousands of years.    

In the second stanza, the poet is saying soldiers fight for different countries and they think the will put an end to war by defeating other countries. They think by defeating other countries at war, they would get more power.   

In the third stanza, the poet is trying to say that soldiers fight for their rights and their country so there would be peace. But soldiers don't see the real reason because the more a country fights, the more the other countries would fight back so there will never be peace until some country stops.  

In the fourth stanza, the poet is saying that soldiers save others so without Hitler's army, Caesar would have stood alone. He used his own body as a weapon to kill other soldiers so he was the one to blame because he was the worst soldier among all. He made his own orders to kill so this way war will never end.     

I would like to end my description of this poem by saying war/fighting is never the answer and you should respect soldiers for they respect you.

-Adam