Rainbow death

This poem is written from a point of view of most probably a civilian who has witnessed the horrors of the war and how much destruction it had caused to all the commoners who are innocent. The setting of this poem is likely to be during World War Two. The writer used words like 'illness' and 'execrable' to show how pitiful the people are during the war, all succumbing to sickness and the aftermath of bomb dropping and use of toxic gases. I feel that war is a very horrifying thing. However, the worst is the people who started the war. Many of them start a war because of their own benefits and gains. This, in turn, caused innocent people to lose their limbs, lives and their loved ones. These people sometimes feel remorseful about it, and it is shows that they are still willing to repent. However, it is all to late and many have already been traumatized and affected by the war.