When Robert Bly begins “Counting Small-boned Bodies” with the verse “Let’s count the bodies over again,” he is urging the reader to <u>remember those who were lost</u>.
<em><u>Explanation:</u></em>
Robert Bly's "Tallying Small-Boned Bodies" is a short sonnet of ten lines, written in free refrain and cautiously partitioned into four stanzas. The ballad at first welcomes the peruser to partake with the speaker (or persona) in the particular activity of describing bodies.
The procedure Bly alludes to is one of checking the assemblages of adversary dead after a fight, a military practice used to decide the degree of harm perpetrated on the contradicting power. The parody of the sonnet dissents the Vietnam War, and all the more explicitly the Pentagon routine with regards to discharging body-tally measurements to the push every day.
The last three stanzas demonstrate the bodies contracting and winding up apparently less imperative. Bly utilizes a progression of strange allegorical pictures to show the awfulness of trivializing demise as such.
The answer to your question is most adequately described with letter D. The theme is the mysteries of God, as this was his "preoccupation." This is implemented in his epic tradition in Europe.
