Naming Of Parts

The main theme of this poem is war and it tells the story of a couple of new military recruits who are being trained and familiarized with different parts of their rifles and we get to read the wonderings of a young soldier as the instructor explains the different parts of a rifle.

In the second stanza the instructor is talking about the rifle's swivels and the young soldier is thinking about the branches of trees standing eloquently in the neighboring garden and how humankind is not eloquent when they perform acts of war and destroy the serenitiy and eloquence of the environment.