USA USA USA

the entire point of the allusions of this poem are to show the overall bland-ness why the speaker says them. he/she runs through our patriotic tunes (not without the little drummer boy I'm sure) as we do today. the whole point of her even bringing them up is to show that we just say the words of "God bless america" and "the star spangled banner" without meaning it. how we then influence our youth to jump into war as lions and to get killed instantly. this poem starts off as a patriotic slogan but by the end the reader is left grasping a glass of water and wondering where the nation's pride went (other then slaughtered with the lions). how our minds are so focused on the tradition of the songs that we don't even follow what we're so proud about. We need to create real lions and real pride, other wise we might be slaughtered as well.