Prompt #4 - What song best describes you and why? [Open]
What I offer to you is not a song, but an instrumental piece that was written in the year that I was born. However it just doesn't describe me, but it describes a lot of the first half of the 20th century.
You see, the piece of music I am talking about is Mars, the Bringer of War, composed by the English Composer Gustav Holst. I believe that he wrote it in 1914 before the first world war broke out and when one listens to the piece, it is quite uncanny how much the piece reflects the horrors of mechanized warfare. I was born in 1914 after the first world war started and it had such an impact on my childhood. I'm not really referring to what happened during the war because I was a little bit too young to remember much of that time. Instead I'm referring to aftereffects of the war. Of what happened because it occurred.
Then there's the second world war, a war far far worse in some ways than the first. I can't really compare personal experiences however since I only have personal experience with the second one, but really, why argue which war is worse? They're all horrid.
So this piece, while not exactly describing me, describes the events that have influenced and shaped my life.