One of Shaws aims in this play is to debunk the romantic heroics of war he wanted to present a realistic account of war and to remove all pretensions of nobility from war It is not however an anti war play instead it is a satire on those attitudes which would glorify war To create this satire Shaw chose as his title the opening lines of Virgils Aeneid the Roman epic which glorifies war and the heroic feats of man in war and which begins Of arms and the man I sing When the play opens we hear abo