Review Of The Protest Song 'I Was Only 19'
Good morning, everyone. I’m Olivia, I shall be speaking today about the protest song - ‘I was only nineteen’.
Firstly, let me tell you exactly what a protest song is. Protest songs have often proven to be an effective tool in creating awareness of social and political topics. Some of the most popular protest songs have changed the history of the world.
‘I was only nineteen’ was written by John Schumann and Trevor Lucas produced it. The song was released in March 1983. The song was released during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was Australia’s largest war. And during that period, troops had to be recruited, and they recruited many young kids. When the soldiers returned home from the Vietnam war, they were not treated like heroes. The public …show more content…
The soldier didn’t really march from cadets however using a metaphor to make listener understand better. in the second stanza the writer has used rhyme, the ‘clean, green and nineteen’. In the last line ‘God help me, I was only nineteen.’, the tone highlighted the soldier’s embarrassing. In the forth stanza uses the soldier’s three question to describes the atrocious conditions of the battle. And the writer has used a metaphor in the second line ‘and night-time’s just a jungle dark and a barking M16’. The gun wasn’t really barking at night, describe the gun M16 as a dog, and the barking is the noise of the gun’s shooting. And the writer has used the rhyme on ‘M sixteen’, ‘means’ and ‘nineteen’ contributes to the overall effect. The first line of for the fifth stanza ‘A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs’, this phrase explains that the soldiers were in quite violently and dangerous conditions, they could died anytime. Every step for them was a risk. In the second line ‘it was a war within yourself’ the writer has used metaphor to gives a description of how hard it was of the war. And soldier didn’t really have a war inside himself. In the sixth stanza the writer has used some rhyme on ‘swore’ and ‘roar’, ‘moon’ and ‘June’. The seventh stanza, in the last line ‘’till the morphine came and killed the bloody row’ the writer has used metaphor
Firstly, let me tell you exactly what a protest song is. Protest songs have often proven to be an effective tool in creating awareness of social and political topics. Some of the most popular protest songs have changed the history of the world.
‘I was only nineteen’ was written by John Schumann and Trevor Lucas produced it. The song was released in March 1983. The song was released during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was Australia’s largest war. And during that period, troops had to be recruited, and they recruited many young kids. When the soldiers returned home from the Vietnam war, they were not treated like heroes. The public …show more content…
The soldier didn’t really march from cadets however using a metaphor to make listener understand better. in the second stanza the writer has used rhyme, the ‘clean, green and nineteen’. In the last line ‘God help me, I was only nineteen.’, the tone highlighted the soldier’s embarrassing. In the forth stanza uses the soldier’s three question to describes the atrocious conditions of the battle. And the writer has used a metaphor in the second line ‘and night-time’s just a jungle dark and a barking M16’. The gun wasn’t really barking at night, describe the gun M16 as a dog, and the barking is the noise of the gun’s shooting. And the writer has used the rhyme on ‘M sixteen’, ‘means’ and ‘nineteen’ contributes to the overall effect. The first line of for the fifth stanza ‘A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs’, this phrase explains that the soldiers were in quite violently and dangerous conditions, they could died anytime. Every step for them was a risk. In the second line ‘it was a war within yourself’ the writer has used metaphor to gives a description of how hard it was of the war. And soldier didn’t really have a war inside himself. In the sixth stanza the writer has used some rhyme on ‘swore’ and ‘roar’, ‘moon’ and ‘June’. The seventh stanza, in the last line ‘’till the morphine came and killed the bloody row’ the writer has used metaphor