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Poem Analysis
Personally, i didn't like the poem. It symbolizes about a man coming back from war. It talks about all he sees and all he went trough. He Forshadows's the grenades, the blood. It's point of view of freedom is when he finally gets home and he is now a free man. After all that he has been trough and he is finally home form all that has happened. Some of the terms he uses are imagery. He puts the image in our head of how it happens. Another term that he uses is
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Imagery-
Ex:As life bled, martyrdom flared its buds.Repression, red from irritation,
Rendered chinks and cracks; but thuds of
Armament – in cowardice – accomplice of the
Dictatorial blight thro’ countless years –
Wreaked its retribution:
Yet hope began to bloom a coloured carapace
Enshrining their allegiance ‘gainst the
Terror in their tears
Ex:As life bled, martyrdom flared its buds.Repression, red from irritation,
Rendered chinks and cracks; but thuds of
Armament – in cowardice – accomplice of the
Dictatorial blight thro’ countless years –
Wreaked its retribution:
Yet hope began to bloom a coloured carapace
Enshrining their allegiance ‘gainst the
Terror in their tears
