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In The Bloody Sire Robinson Jeffers tries to get the point across that war is not always a bad thing. What he is trying to say is even though war is violent and ugly, it is necessary. Not only does he believe that war is necessary, but he believes that war is what made the world what it is today. Jeffers points out that maybe something like violence, which the world perceives to be wrong, is actually right. He plays with the idea that maybe what is wrong, is not always wrong; maybe it can sometimes be right. Jeffers starts out the poem by saying, "It is not bad. Let them play." Essentially letting the reader know what he believes right off the bat. He then creates an image of war in the readers head by using such lines as, "Let the guns bark and the bombing-place speak his prodigious blasphemies." Putting the reader in a mind set of war time; picturing planes bombing troops and gunfire in the background. He then proceeds to again say how "It is not bad, it is high time."......

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