Annex A steps in analysis

Have you all seen the poem analysis on conflict i posted just now? No? Well, what are you waiting for? Read that! Anyway, the thing is, you need to read that to understand this post that i am writing.

So firstly, the point of view of this poem.

Point of view :

Evidence: "America did not foresee" , "nefariously America led astray"

Elaboration: From these two quotes, we can see that this poem is in a third person point of view as the poem wrote America which is referring to the general country. It does not necessarily mean someone who is involved in the war itself, and the speaker can be soldier who survived the war, yeah, that is a possibility, but it also can be someone who witnessed the war or was born after the war as agent orange was spread after the war, which is why the poem itself tell us that there are still some wars after the wars supposedly ended.

Lets move on to situation and setting. So, you may ask, what is the setting of this poem? It seemed so general that it has no setting.

Situation and setting:

Evidence: actually all the lines can be used as evidence, but i will just pick out a few important ones: "Nefariously America led astray, generations untold will pay, execrable effects of agent orange spray!"

Elaboration: Basically all of the quotes are about the situation in this poem. As you can see from the three quotes (i combined the three), it kind of summarized the whole poem's situation. It tells us of the aftermath of the war and how it could kill innocent people in the later generations and how America's mistake allowed it to deteriorate. The situation here is that America used agent orange to kill the Vietnamese, but the agent also spread to its own personnel that came in contact with this agent and how this agent will then affect the innocents in the later generations. As i said before, this poem has no setting as it is based on a general theme.

Now we are dealing with language and diction. As we all can see, there is a heavy use of language and diction in this poem. Although its a short poem, it is enough to express its content with the help of language.

So what is language and diction? I shall continue in the next day!