Both poet’s Warner and Ackland wrote about their experiences in Spain. Ackland’s poem “Winter” and “Instructions from England” I particularly liked. They related to the Spanish Civil War and were written during this struggle that was occurring in Spain. In the poem “Winter” Valentine writes “Then we whisper together and the word we say is red, /Over screech of sirens when morning comes and the red sun rises” (lines 8, 12). The use of the color red represents anger and the death of war. It also represents the color for communism. The word “red” is the devotion to communism and its role in the war. In Valentines poem “Instructions from England,” the last two lines were the strong points of this poem. Valentine writes “note churches burned and popes in pain/ but not the men who die” (lines 7-8). Line seven describes the pain that Spain is going through and how religion is being torn apart. Line eight talks about how the men who have already died no longer suffer, they do not have to see Spain in ruins and they are taken away from the crumbling foundation of Spain.