You and I disappearing
Poem by Yosef Komunyakaa
The poem is not about the girl but it talk about the inner strength which the men possess inside him. The strength which is like a fire which burns and harness its glory into the entire world.
He talked about how much strength he requires to face the entire adverse situation which comes in his life, he talk about how in varied situation his strength grows and curtails down. He talks about how gracefully his inner strength gave him courage to stand in his situation. He talks about the situation in which sometime he feels helpless but still has to continue his journey with all good or adverse situations. Why do I think so?
The poem talks about the fire, “fire of a girl” for me this …show more content…
She burns like a shot glass of vodka. She burns like a field of poppies at the edge of the rain forest. She rise like a dragonsmoke to my nostrils.she burns like a burning bush driven by a godawful wind”
In this Para terms like “vodka”,” poppies”, “ nostrils”, “burning bush”, “ wind” are some detonation terms used while the terms like “shot glass”, “ field of poppies”, “ dragon smoke” , “god-awful” are some connotation used.
Assignment 4
Poem by Bruce Weigl
Song of Napalm for my wife
In this poem is about the story of what happens just after war comes to an end, this poem describe about the soldiers marching off from battle field, and then it’s about the remains left after the war the author is thinking thru a solider eyes about the girl who is actually waiting for his men to come back as soon as war end and her endless care and affection.
When the author talked about the “the grass was never…….the sky like barbed wire” this helped me analyzing about the end of war. But when the author talks about “but still the branches are wire…. …….Who waits in waves of heat before her” helped me in analyzing about the wait of a lady of a soldier who is in war.
I feel like poet is into deep sorrow and into the aura of ambiguity where he feels like this war is not going to