Sestina: Altaforte

In the Altaforte the speaker tells how he loves to fight and here the "music" of swords clashing. The speaker believes that piece is something that only woman suffer and that there is nothing better that the cries of battles and the drip of blood from a man or sword. Throughout the poem the speaker expresses his love for war and his distaste for the people who prefer piece by comparing it to thunder, lighting and music and how it makes him feel alive. The end words to the lines are mostly all "happy" words such as rejoicing, music, piece, and crimson. These words do not necessarily go with the dark lines they are with but are there because the speaker believes that battle and war is a good thing so they make it sound better.