No Men Are Foreign

The language this author has chosen is quite negative, for example, they use these four lines “Will my tribe forget the tradition? Our totem and our songs? Will my land be taken away from us? For development grazing rights?” These lines, even if read on their own, leave a negative impact on you. The thought of losing your land for grazing rights is horrible, this poem is discussing the many things that can and are happening when people forget their tradition. There whole culture takes a punch from it and this is what the author is trying to

This is a poem that problematizes ‘language’. “Language plays an altogether fundamental role in human thinking, and it bestows on man his unique ability

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

During the time of imperialism the smaller countries were used more just as a way of competing with other countries to see who could get the most resources and land one place this happened was in china everyone was fighting over land, this was later ended by the open door policy. This was the time when each country showcased how much power they had. Start of seeing the racial difference, the different cultures saw how each other lived it was the principle of because you aren’t like me you are less than me. most places America took followed different rules than those of America. In most of the articles and in the poem it refers to the foreign natives as untamed, and irresponsible. They were treated as animals or just things that could be put to use for no cost. That would have helped their economy. Imperialism wasn’t much of helping people that might have needed it but was more of a business competing for the most wealth.

It is clear that there is a resistant and rebellious theme of the poem, that tells the truth about human problems. This is made clear by the writer saying, “but who do you see in the mirror when there’s only yourself and you. Who really knows the truth of the fascist, that lives inside of you.” So, majority, if not all of the poem does not relate to the traditional stereotype and forces the readers to look beyond the

Tom Lux’s “The People of the Other Village” was written shortly after the first Iraq war and gained popularity after the 9/11 attacks.   The poem’s voice comes from an indifferent narrator whose unnamed village is at war with the people of an “other” unnamed village.  The exact reason that started this war is unclear; however, as the war escalates, the battle tactics evolve and are depicted in an alternating line structure that mimics the back and forth nature of reciprocal violence.  Ultimately, the author presents a poem that comments on human nature without committing to a judgment of that nature through subject matter, structure, and narrative voice.

The text proceeds from analyzing each poem individually, and later draws parallels between the two. It tries to answer the questions whether the poems are a call to social irresponsibility, and if the object of the poem, the common man should be scorned or pitied. That the common man who is busy conforming to the norms of the state and the society has lost connection with his natural surroundings evokes sympathy for him. Materialism has subsumed his capacity to think to an extent that he cannot even decide whether he is free to do as he wishes – can he say no to enlisting for war? Or can he hold an opinion that did not coincide with the larger public?

After reading the Literal translation one might be fairly in touch with the poem and

The explication of the beginning of the poem is so bizarre. The first verse of the poem talks about the speaker’s loneliness. The speaker woke up from the sleep and he is trying to tell about his dream to his old friend. However, He addressed the darkness as his old friend and started to describe it which he had done before. Also, He is saying that when he was sleeping a vision left its seeds and it was deeply rooted in his brain. In this poem silence is the taboo, what he wants to speak about he cannot. The speaker is mentioning to all enlightened people in this poem. Its theme is man's inability to communicate with man.

This is a very controversial and moving poem. The language is frank and interesting. The rhythm shows the passion of the narrator and the poet transparently. There is amazing balance between abstraction and what is tangible. This poem is highly effective in that it engages the reader immediately with a

This collection of over ninty words is much more than just a poem. It’s a story of millions of people. It ties in rhymes, sadness, happiness, religion and anger though a broad spectrum of other ideas.

When faced with the countless problems of war including death, disease, sorrow, and loss, soldiers develop and intense bond between one another as they seek support in one another. A brotherhood is formed among these soldiers who rely on one another for protection and companionship amid a time in their lives where they are faced with the constant threat of death and violence everyday of their lives. But what happens to them after the war? In After the War, poet brings awareness to how the war-torn soldier attempts to reestablish their self in a society they have been isolated from for so many years through use of free verse and repetitive phrases, which further reinforces the theme throughout the poem.

Christopher Wallace was inspired to write this poem because he allegedly had four uncles who were killed in World War I. The poem talks about how innocent lives were taken and how many young Australians had no choice but to go to war because of conscription. In this poem Wallace foreshadows the dullness and sorrow war has and that the reader should not forget the sacrifices that were made for Australia’s Freedom.

Here is the interpretation and analysis of the poem based on the sections that respect the grammar and meaning of its sentences:

Among his “praises,” for example: “When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went” (24). In this, it becomes clear to the reader that you do not want to be an average citizen; you do not want this to be your elegy. Some critics argue this, however, as Auden stating that there is nothing disgraceful in being unknown. The poem is, above all, a satire of the way conformity hinders the individual and leaves ridiculous and solely external distinctions between human beings.