Hi, everyone!
I need major help!!!!! I have this english assessment about poetry only i dont understand what this poem means.....i have to indicate the parts in which literal imagery is being used. If you dont understand what literal imagery is dont worry about it. But someone please help me understand this poem. PLEASE!!!!!! Also does anyone know how this poem represents some issues from the post-modern era???
A Schoolboy’s Apology If sometimes I fall asleep in a lecture or shout or scream as if alone please forgive me please don’t be angry for I have no place to play I’m growing up and I want to be a sailor I’m wishing for a giant arena and a stream I feel like yelling my life is beginning Every minute I want to hold tight to my dreams But the fires of war have shrivelled my joys At every step I see guns turned on me At every word I hear the crash of steel Not believing not understanding I only stare The slaughter goes on and on. Blood and bones and hatred all stained red. People running from the front to look out for themselves Cheating lying stabbing others in the back Some of my friends have fallen No one knew, no one cried, they were dewdrops that’s all. My home village burnt to the ground The way back cut off, ‘partitioned….’ Le Than Xuan (1949 – translated by Nguyen Ngoc Bich)