[Loza33]

Many, many post modern issues and comments on society!! Ill highlight main ones...

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
Turns out... the whole thing is big comment on post modern society...

Here is a 'school boy' , who 'has no place to play', holding onto dreams and apsirations "I want to be a sailor" and yet due to the society around him is faced with "Blood and bones and hatred all stained red." This poor boy has nothing left ot live for.. he cannot understand what he has done wrong.. the catalyst of the poem is
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

It is a very vivid poem.. that can easily be concentrated on the issue of society of 'is this what our youths view?'
'are we paving this future for younger generations?"

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