Task 2

Point Evidence Elaboration
Point of View : The speaker is the poet himself. He is speaking from a soldier point of view, as he was one of the many affected soldiers. In the poem the author is showing his hate for what the Americans had used to win the war, and in the long run which would affect more than just their enemys, but also affect the innocent people of Vietnam and even many of the unborn generations of Vietnam.

Situation and Setting :Imagery
Evidence: “Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri!”
The author uses imagery to give a sense of what he saw during the Vietnam war. The colours “Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri” are used to describe what he saw. Green would have been used to describe the trees he saw while moving in the jungle or the camouflage used by the soldiers. Pink and purple are also used to show the wounds of the injured soldiers. The death potpourri is used to show that all these colours are used as they can be clearly seen in the war, showing that it has a colourful, but gruesome side.

3 Language/ Diction “Toll on the innocent and unborn…. Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn”
“Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead.
All the deceit continues to spread.”

The poet uses a lot emphasis on some words by putting it in capital and uses rhyme to show the connection between two things. The evidence “innocent and unborn” and “who will mourn” which rhyme,. This show their connection that many people are mourning for the loss an innocent child, and that the government of the winning country do not really care about the loss of lives just to win the war. The poet also uses “prematurely dead” and “deceit continues to spread”. These two phrase also rhyme, showing that they are connected as they, both show that the more the illnesses spread, the more the death spread, the more hated which will be built to affect more people.

4 Personal Response
Personally I feel that the poem show the true side of the war at hand. Although in every war it show that everyone who died is brave, the poem show that in war it isn’t just about the soilder, but it also show the horrors the people will face and the selfishness of the government, as to win the war, they are willing to put many people at risk of dying., just to win the war. It alos shows that the government is also willing to uses any mean nessaary to win the war.

Task 1 for elearning

This small poem speaks of a modern day ingredient of warfare that has caused appalling death and suffering – not only to its intended victims, the Vietnamese people, but also the service personnel that used or even just came into contact with “Agent Orange”.
The poem show that the poet does not like and feel a deep distaste for how the chemicals were used in the war, which cause the death and damage to the innocents of Vietnam. In the poem, the chemical called Agent Orange is mentioned. This is the same chemical which has caused the poet many health problems. The poet now has health problems which started approximately 15 years ago with unexplained headaches and limb pains. Afew years later, years ago his central nervous system radically deteriorated with Parkinsonian type tremors, severe headaches, progressive limb pains. The auothor’s guess is the heavily contaminated drinking water at Shemya during my year there as an intelligence analyst. Organo-phosphate toxins may not run their toxic course until 20 to 30 years after initial exposure.