Tuesday, May 25, 2010 ' 9:12 PM
moments in life.
e-learing
Children in the Darkness
This poem shows me how pitiful and how the children lived during the Vietnam war. The children live in fear everyday and nobody teaches them how to fight or study. The children don’t have a chance to study or have a proper childhood. The children live in fear of war every day, fleeing day and day, many of which lost their parents in the war, and have to learn to be independent at such a young age.
The poem is written at a soldier’s point of view, of which the soldier was in during the war and he was sitting in a hotel room in Saigon just before Christmas, he looked at the TV and the news was on. He did not know what the news reader was saying but in the background was a photo of a small boy with a helmet and an automatic rifle. The soldier felt that the children were mistreated and they were treated more of like soldiers and weapons rather than children.
The situation and setting is during the war period when everyone is living in fear everyday and tries to save themselves from getting killed in the war. There is fear and unhappiness everywhere.
The language used in the poem is repetition and metaphors; I find this poem disturbing and sympathetic as the children in the poem have lost freedom at such a young age and are escaping from death during the war. The children do not have a chance to study or be able to defend themselves.