The literary devices that are used in the poet are tone, imagery, and theme. The mother is talking to her son about the situation of him joining the army, where the son may have read a book about recruitment on young boys for the army. But, what the son does not know is that maybe the mother has experienced a war environment. She does not want to see her son go through what she went through. After all the reading he had done, he finally puts down the book and announced with pride that he will join the army. The mother is shocked from his decision, but she is proud of her son. Once, he has made his decision the mother is sadly preparing herself of losing her son due to her remembering his “brown gaze” as her eyes met his too. She felt that it
