... important times such as during war, that people sent mail. The second stanza is maybe a few hundred years later, in the seventeen hundreds, during the "French Revolution." It describes a new quicker way of communication. This is still old fashioned and unheard of for the modern day man. It is the time of the "telegraph," and the "semaphore." This stanza implies that it was not an easy task and was yet difficult and hard to manage. "It still took three men with all their variables....to read record and pass the message on." This indicates that communication at this stage is still not an easy occurrence. However, the line "judgment of swing in a vertical arm," has a double meaning. Literally, it refers to the physical movement involved in a semaphore and how it was interpreted based on the movement of the arm. The line it can also be ...

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