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Detailed explanation-1: -John Brown Poetic Devices The poetic devices used are alliteration, repetition, exclamation, and irony.

Detailed explanation-2: -’John Brown’ by Bob Dylan is an anti-war poem that ironically refers to a mother and her soldier son. The poem creates a stark contrast between the fascination of war and the futility of it. This imaginary story about John Brown is a portrayal of all the soldiers wounded or suffered in war.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: The theme of entire poem “John Brown” is “The fatality of war.” Bob Dylan, by means of the story of John Brown shows the fatal consequences of war. Instead of glorifying and romanticising war, ’John Brown’ shows realistic details of the kind of horror and senseless deaths that a war causes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: At the end of the poem, we see John Brown returning in a pathetic condition questioning the need for war. When he hands her the medals that he had earned, his mother is ironically shocked about it as she finds the consequences for earning those medals as hard to digest.