is a young woman who is lamenting that her lover has gone off to war. She complains to her mother, first asking, "where is happiness?" and then adding, "they took my lover's tallness off to war." Her emphasis on her lover's physique, his tallness, reveals that she thinks his size was the primary reason that "they" took him, and that emphasis also reveals her own strong attraction to his height.from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Gwendolyn Brooks' the sonnet-ballad
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