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This poem is set in the start of WW1. its when all the soldiers are lined up ready to sign up to go fight for the country. In stanza one they show this whole act they put towards how they feel 'grinning' and 'sun' are things you would symbolize as being happy and it shows that they do not really know what they are putting themselves forwards for. In the third stanza they talk about all the place names being hazed over this is because when there was an invasion they would cover up place names so people didn't know where they were. Final stanza about lost innocence and this would be because what the men witnessed they came back changed. War has corrupted the world and brought sins into the world showing how bad the war was and no one really knew what to expect. The word never is repeated throughout this poem especially in the final stanza and I think this shows the thought of it being worse than expected. Because what the men went through changed everything.