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When you or any solider are one the frontlines of war they tend to have mixed emotions; such as fear or confusion. In the song Frontline by Pillar the band uses strong narration, a serious tone and a first person point of view to display what emotions soldiers in war should show when they’re on the frontline.

The strong narration in Frontline feels as though it is either a high ranking solider or general basically speaking to his troops saying you shouldn’t be scared or confused of what to expect when you are on the frontline of battle. For those of you who don’t know the frontline of a military line in war are the ones taking all the immediate damage from the opposing side. So this could be the general explain what it means to be a solider that has either been on the frontline, positioned on the frontline, or died on the frontline. And the reason he is doing this is because soldiers are all viewed as one in the same. “We live our lives on the front lines, we’re not afraid of the fast times”. What the band is narrating is soldiers on the frontline have to be quick, they have to be able to make decisions right then and their cause when you look at the line “We drive on and don’t look back”.

When someone is telling a story of soldiers they may use a more depressing type of tone to make people feel bad for the solider. Where in frontline when Pillar sings about these soldiers they use a motivating and angry tone to basically sort of display what is happening and what is going through the minds of these men. They don’t want you to see depression in the eyes of these soldiers and you may ask why and they will simply say “Because your sympathy is not our main priority when we are out there and having to decisions right then and there”. “We’ve got to lead the way” this quote shows that it is up to these troops to basically lead the way for all the other soldiers out there fighting.

“We fight to live, we live to fight and tonight, you’ll hear my battle cry”. This shows that we are looking at these insane battles on the frontline through the eyes of a soldier who is literally there in this moment on the front line. It is also obvious from this quote that this soldier is neither scared nor confused. He seems like he’s pumped up or angry and ready for battle. The first point of view works here because if we were seeing this through the eyes of third person we wouldn’t have the same emotional feel that we are getting from the one soldier.     

Soldier have it rough because you never really have to emotional feel for then because most of the time they are offended in some way and start to get mad. They start to say stuff like “you haven’t   seen what I have seen”. But now in this song they are basically saying don’t think or worry about use because it does not affect us in any way shape or form. And that is a complete different reaction than what people usually think. In the song Frontline by Pillar the band uses strong narration, a serious tone and a first person point of view to display what emotions soldiers in war should show when they’re on the frontline.