JWERudyard+Kipling's+Higher+Purpose

In his poem there are two distinctively different sections. The Before and the After sections. Before is right before the revolutionary war. While after is directly after the revolutionary war. Each has it's own tone to it. The first Section is very gun hoe and patriotic. Whilst the second one has a more mellow and sad tone to it. I think that Rudyard Kipling was trying to show how no matter how great a reason may seem, war and death is never the correct answer. Very rarely does one find himself a glorious death.