The Vietnamese War has always been a sensitive subject to Americans and the Vietnamese from that day forward. A poem named “Vietnamese Morning” written by Curt Bennett, truly speaks of that day. Bennett also reminds us how it is still affecting many of those men, women, and loved ones today. Curt Bennett was an American flight pilot during the Vietnamese War. Curt Bennett explains, expresses, and tells his experience throughout this poem, Vietnamese Morning. I decided to write about this particular poem due to the fact that Bennett was in the Vietnamese War, saw this horrific event first hand, and understood this event from an eye witness perspective. In the poem, Vietnamese Morning, the tone of the poem starts of as clam and gradually builds
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Bennett described a beautiful scenery, “In early morning the land is breath taking the low, blazing, ruby sun melts the night-shadow pools creating an ethereal appearance” explaining his vision towards Vietnam. The main focus is in the first line is “in the early morning”. In the early morning everything seemed to be normal, as if chaos wasn’t about to happen within a few hours. Curt Bennett also described Vietnam as “ethereal”, meaning that this place seemed too perfect for this world. By Bennett looking around at his surroundings, thinking how a place this beautiful could have so much hate, soon to be death, and …show more content…
The patchwork quilted earth,
Slashed by snaking tree-lines,
Slumbers in dawn 's blue light.
Life was still going on in Vietnam, as if war isn’t about to take place. Rice is still being grown, the lakes are clam and mirrored reflecting the peace, and the sun is still rising. Bennett extremely focuses on this that Vietnam still has so much beauty and hoping that the war doesn’t take that away from there. Beauty was gone within seconds as the American pilots dropped bombs into the forest leaving “slashed by snaking tree-lines”. The beautiful and lush jungle was gone, as if trees no longer existed. Once the war was over Vietnam was not the same as before. Of course, still had its beauty yet something was still eerie, spin chilling and disturbing. In the fourth and final stanza Curt Bennett reminds us of how quiet and dead Vietnam remained, “Of clinging, slippery, misty
Bennett described a beautiful scenery, “In early morning the land is breath taking the low, blazing, ruby sun melts the night-shadow pools creating an ethereal appearance” explaining his vision towards Vietnam. The main focus is in the first line is “in the early morning”. In the early morning everything seemed to be normal, as if chaos wasn’t about to happen within a few hours. Curt Bennett also described Vietnam as “ethereal”, meaning that this place seemed too perfect for this world. By Bennett looking around at his surroundings, thinking how a place this beautiful could have so much hate, soon to be death, and …show more content…
The patchwork quilted earth,
Slashed by snaking tree-lines,
Slumbers in dawn 's blue light.
Life was still going on in Vietnam, as if war isn’t about to take place. Rice is still being grown, the lakes are clam and mirrored reflecting the peace, and the sun is still rising. Bennett extremely focuses on this that Vietnam still has so much beauty and hoping that the war doesn’t take that away from there. Beauty was gone within seconds as the American pilots dropped bombs into the forest leaving “slashed by snaking tree-lines”. The beautiful and lush jungle was gone, as if trees no longer existed. Once the war was over Vietnam was not the same as before. Of course, still had its beauty yet something was still eerie, spin chilling and disturbing. In the fourth and final stanza Curt Bennett reminds us of how quiet and dead Vietnam remained, “Of clinging, slippery, misty