The writer is writing in the point of view of the people who are affected by the spraying of Agent Orange recounting. The persona is talks about how the Americans have led astray causing illness, birth defects and deaths. He expresses his anger for the Americans when he says that the generations will pay. This shows that he is a victim whose life is destroyed by the spraying of Agent Orange because he shows his anger for the Americans who caused the deaths and illnesses.
Situation and Setting
It is during the Vietnam war where the Americans sprayed Agent Orange and other herbicides which caused many people falling ill and even deaths. Not only soldiers were affected innocent lives were too. The poem talks about the illness, birth defects and deaths and tolling on the innocent. This shows that there were many people whose lives were affected as there were many innocent people who died and got ill because of the spraying of herbicides.
Language/Diction
The writer uses sarcasm, imagery as well as rhyming words to show his anger for the Americans who caused him this suffering. The writer uses sarcasm when he says "America did not foresee" and "Now thinking twice?". He is trying to show that America saw the effects of spraying but they still carried on in spraying, they did not have a thought for the people who were going to be affected. The writer uses imagery in the poem in "green, pink, purple and other colours death potpourii" to allow the reader to imagine the situation. The reader will imagine rainbow colours sprayed down and causing death and illnesses, and recognise the amount of damage done. The writer also uses rhyming words in the last three lines of him poem. The rhyming words he used are "astray", "pay" and "spray". He is emphasizing the Americans going astray in spraying Agent Orange and other harmful herbicides and they will pay. This expresses the writers anger and frustration for the Americans.
Personal Response
I feel that the everyone should think about what they are doing twice before carrying them out. We should always think of the consequences that will follow and whether it will harm anyone. We should always make a wise decision. In the poem, it talks about how the Americans have thought of the consequences but they still chose to carry out the spraying of herbicides. This resulted in many innocent people suffering. We must always spare a thought of people around as so that we can prevent people from suffering in the future.
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