I was only nineteen song. The poet wrote about the Vietnam war. It is about the young solider. It’s about the young solider that do not want to die but they have to join in Vietnam war. They have to fight within yourself and other enemy . The solider in the war no force them to join. There is one sentence appear that they do not want to join. It is “God help me I was only nineteen”. The “nineteen” means an age of solider. This is too young to fight with …show more content…
It always affects on people such as lose his mind, disable, dying, body changes etc. the war is all about political benefits more than protecting the nation of solider like the lyrics “Here in no man's land” in No man’s land. Why we have to kill people for the land? Every land on the earth never have owner until now, all of people create the rule for possess it. Moreover, It Is not only solider that get an impact from this but also their parent, their lover, their child get this impact as well. In the past, young people have to join this war with unwilling. These songs also describe their feeling of the involuntary solider. They might not know that they fight for what. In the I was only nineteen song, they worry all the time about war on the wild. He can not control his mind. He is not ready to die. It can observe in the line “God help me,” in three