The Little Girl Saw Her First Troop Parade | Carl Sandburg | Summary | Generations | Grade XII
Short summary:
This
poem dramatically exposes the bitter reality of war through the innocent
perspective of a young girl.
Summary
‘The
Little Girl Saw Her First Troop Parade’ is a prose poem which unfolds dramatically.
It exposes the bitter reality of war through the innocent perspective of a
young girl. The poem begins as a casual conversation between a little girl and
a grown up man and shows war as an evil and destructive. When the little girl
saw the parade for the first time, she asked the narrator what they were. She
got the answer that they were soldiers. Then she asked again what the soldiers
were. Another answer she got that they were for war. The soldiers fight and try
to kill as many foes as they can. The girl remained silent and thought for some
time and said the soldiers start the war but nobody returns alive.
In
the poem, the little girl is innocent; she exposes the bitter reality of war.
Through the perspective of the little innocent girl, the poet wants to reveal
the fact that war is really useless.
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