Home-Based Learning - Task 2

1. Whose Point of View

Statement: The poet is most probably writing from a war veteran point of view.

Evidence: Hubert Wilson has been a war veteran before, thus he is able to recount what happened into a poem.

Elaboration: Being a war veteran before, the poet surely has a vivid memory of the war. Thus, he would be able to write it out as a poem. The poet knows that many people has died due to this war.

2. Situation and Setting

Statement: The situation is that many people are dying from the Agent Orange and the setting is at Vietnam, during the Vietnam War.

Evidence: "Toll on the innocent and unborn." and "all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead."

Elaboration: After the US sprayed millions of gallons of Agent Orange on Vietnam, many Vietnamese were mutated or even killed. Many of the babies born were also dead or deformed.

3. Language/Diction

Statement: The last word in each line rhymes with the last word in the next line.

Evidence: "foresee" and "potpourri", "price" and "twice", "unborn" and "mourn", "dead" and "spread", "astray" and "pay" and "spray".

Elaboration: The last word in each line rhymes with the next to allow the poem to be more smooth.

4. Personal Response

Statement: I feel that war is inhuman and should never happen again.

Evidence: Countless of people die from wars and some of them even get mutated. Humans should live in peace and harmony where killing and maiming is not allowed.

Elaboration: With bullets and missiles flying everywhere, innocent people are sure to die. Destruction is the only outcome of war and neither parties would gain anything. Humans should learn to stop war and violence.