Point of View
- Point: Insider's point of view
- Evidence: Author been to Vietnam in 1967 - 68 and again in 1969
- Elaboration: He was in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, so would have seen how the war-torn country looked like.
- Point: Poem is situated during the Vietnam War
- Evidence: "Or will a war consume them", stanza 4, line 13; birth of the poem
- Elaboration: The phrase shows that the poem is during a war, and from the author saying that he wrote this poem in Saigon, Vietnam (refer to task 1), we can know that the "war" in this poem is the Vietnam War.
- Point: A feeling of doom, fear, hopelessness
- Evidence: "darkness", "cannot flee", " are not free", "no light", "Down some endless thirsty hole"
- Elaboration: The use of these words invoke a sense of doom, fear and hopelessness. Darkness is usually associated with doom and fear, which is exactly how the children would feel during the war, which is a period of darkness.
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