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            Mina Loy's poem "Der Blind Junge" takes a new perspective on the war poems that I have seen and gives her audience the notion of what war is to the German soldiers of World War I, or The Great War.  In this particular poem she is framing the idea that the young boys who served had no say or choice on the actions they committed.  The war changed these boys to men and took their freewill into a false reality that pervaded their humanity in order to complete tasks of cruelty.  These new bred tools of destruction are used for the sole purpose of causing death and mayhem and Loy implies that they have no say in the matter.  In stanza eight she also states, "A downy youth's snout/nozzling the sun/drowned in dumbfounded instinct,"  that implies these soldiers have realized that war has changed them but they do not refute it because in war it is either kill or be killed.