1) The poem was based on the point of view of a by stander who sympathises the children forced into going to war. This is supported by the fact that the poem is not decribing how the children felt but how someone else feels for them, "Or will a war comsume them" which means it is a third person point of view.
2) The poem creates a visual image of children being taught how to fight and take up arms during wars. The contrast between "darkness" and "light", as well as its repetition, emphasizes the hopeless situation the children were in. War is portrayed as a "dark" place, cruel and depriving children from experiencing childhood like a normal child would have, instead other places free of war would be bright and cheery ("Light"), with freedom and the children are living their typical child lives.
3) The poet uses literary devices to emphasise the critical and unfair situation the children were in. He repeats the phrase "Could We", emphasising that the children are being treated unfairly and someone needs to do something to change that but no one could. These pondering on whether the childrean could be saved shows how hopeless the situation was and shows how critical it was. Imagery was also used when they poet wrote "To this door there is no key" a door where the childrean could not go to war would never be opened, the children would never be free.
4) This poem makes us, modern day children residing in Singapore feel relieved in the fact that we do not need to face war. I myself feel that since we have so many advantages over those children at war, we should treasure our time learning and exploring the world and be of someone useful next time to help those children. The poem is not talking about adults going to war but children going to war, childrean that are hardly mature enough to even understand the ways of lives are going to war that says that the adults putting these children to war are irresponsible adults who pass off their responsibility as an infleunce these children see them as.
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