I agree with most folks that the poem takes you "right there."
However, I have a problem with the last line..."quiet wars" opens up a Pandora's Box...what quiet wars? Something specific? Something general? Why don't we feel the underlying tension before in the poem?
The poem takes me "right there" up until the penultimate line, and then I feel like I am "not there" in the last.
Which leaves me feeling...was I "ever there?"
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