Tuesday, February 21, 2012

What does the poem "Bombed Last Night" say about the human condition?

I am not really sure that this poem talks about the human
condition per se so much as it talks about the human condition in time of
war
.  In this time of war, the poem is saying, the human condition is to
suffer and to the best one can in such times of
suffering.


This poem is a very stoical sounding poem.  It
is basically saying "all this bad stuff is happening to us.  It is horrible and scary. 
But there is nothing at all that we can do about it."


If
this is what the poem's speaker is saying, then the poem is telling us that human beings
in war are powerless and can only suffer.  They have to take what is dealt out to them
and do the best they can.

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