It’s about how fighting off the barbarians is the reason for all the other concepts to exist, and the poem questions their validity for that reason. It’s a comment about how the fear mongering of politics work. A less poetic and perhaps more relatable rhetoric would be “the immigrants are taking your jobs”, and the sort.
It’s about how fighting off the barbarians is the reason for all the other concepts to exist, and the poem questions their validity for that reason. It’s a comment about how the fear mongering of politics work. A less poetic and perhaps more relatable rhetoric would be “the immigrants are taking your jobs”, and the sort.