Term 2 Week 10 Home-learning Task 2: Steps in analysis
Rainbow Death
1. Point of view
The speaker is the poet. The voice is dramatized, emphasizing the speaker's anger towards the effects of the "agents" as well as the suffering experienced by the victims. This anger must have been generated throught a first-hand experience of seeing these suffering and the poet fits this criteria as he had participated in the war. He also described the effects of agent orange well and also said that there were actually other agents that were not used as much as agent orange and hence not many people would know about it. The only way he could have known about these other agents would be that if experienced it himself. The speaker, who is the poet is also extremely angry towards America over the suffering the innocent people of Vietnam. For him to be able to have such anger towards his own country, it would require something really big to happen that could make him think or feel this way and hence, a first-hand experience is the only way he could have such anger.
2. Situation and setting
The setting is after the use of agent orange. This is evident from how the speaker describes the effects of agent orange on the victims. The only way for the speaker to see the effects would be if the agent had already been used on the Vietnamese people, or if the US military used it on their own soldiers, which is highly unlikely.
3. The title itself is an oxymoron. A rainbow is not used with death, or used to describe death. In the story of Noah's ark, the rainbow was a sign that the earth would not be flooded again and hence not cause death. "Death potpourri" is also an oxymoron. Potpourri is a collection of dried flowers and fruits that emit a fragrance smell. The poet also uses "nefariously" when describing America. Nefarious means something evil and immoral and the poet uses it to emphasize the cruelty and how evil America was to use agent orange, hence saying that the suffering of the victims was really horrible.
4. This poem reminds me of the horrible effects of agent orange, as well as the cruelty of the US military to use this horror on innocent people. This led me to go and learn more about agent orange. I found out that the US military had actually bought these agents to destroy the crops the Vietnamese were growing as well as to make the land infertile. When they found out about the horrible effects of agent orange, they did not stop using it, but continueud without thinking about the innocent people whose lives they were ruining.
1. Point of view
The speaker is the poet. The voice is dramatized, emphasizing the speaker's anger towards the effects of the "agents" as well as the suffering experienced by the victims. This anger must have been generated throught a first-hand experience of seeing these suffering and the poet fits this criteria as he had participated in the war. He also described the effects of agent orange well and also said that there were actually other agents that were not used as much as agent orange and hence not many people would know about it. The only way he could have known about these other agents would be that if experienced it himself. The speaker, who is the poet is also extremely angry towards America over the suffering the innocent people of Vietnam. For him to be able to have such anger towards his own country, it would require something really big to happen that could make him think or feel this way and hence, a first-hand experience is the only way he could have such anger.
2. Situation and setting
The setting is after the use of agent orange. This is evident from how the speaker describes the effects of agent orange on the victims. The only way for the speaker to see the effects would be if the agent had already been used on the Vietnamese people, or if the US military used it on their own soldiers, which is highly unlikely.
3. The title itself is an oxymoron. A rainbow is not used with death, or used to describe death. In the story of Noah's ark, the rainbow was a sign that the earth would not be flooded again and hence not cause death. "Death potpourri" is also an oxymoron. Potpourri is a collection of dried flowers and fruits that emit a fragrance smell. The poet also uses "nefariously" when describing America. Nefarious means something evil and immoral and the poet uses it to emphasize the cruelty and how evil America was to use agent orange, hence saying that the suffering of the victims was really horrible.
4. This poem reminds me of the horrible effects of agent orange, as well as the cruelty of the US military to use this horror on innocent people. This led me to go and learn more about agent orange. I found out that the US military had actually bought these agents to destroy the crops the Vietnamese were growing as well as to make the land infertile. When they found out about the horrible effects of agent orange, they did not stop using it, but continueud without thinking about the innocent people whose lives they were ruining.
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