explain the images that portray the romanticism of war from the poem John brown
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The poem opens with the images of the heroic stature of a young, handsome soldier, John Brown, the titular hero of Dylan’s poem, going off to fight in a war. Standing straight and tall in his uniform, new and crisp, he seemed all primed. The splendor that the political propagandists had so craftily gilded soldiership with, in turn made his mother reel with such pride and admiration that her face broke out all in grin to see her son dressed in the uniform of a soldier. She felt glad to be the mother of a son as honorable as him and felt proud to see him holding a gun. This shows how John’s mother, providing a mere face to the mindset of the people of her era, associated grandeur to the official possession of a gun, an instrument which offers a blaring promise of peace; which is deterministic of not who is right—only who is left. She encourages him to do what the captain says which would surely get him lots of medals that in turn she would hang on the wall as a memento of his achievements when he would return