Task 2

Q2) Complete the template provided below (Annex A), focusing on (1) Point of View; (2) Situation and Setting; (3) Language/Diction; and (4) Personal Response, and post your response to Task 2 on your blog. This template is based on John Lye’s ‘Critical Analysis of Poetry’, and you can make reference to this in Annex B when in doubt.

Point of view: This poem is in the point of view of Hubert Wilson. “Now thinking twice?” This message is show that Hubert Wilson was referring to the Americans thus it is in the point of view of him.

Situation and setting: This poem is talking about the spraying of poisonous gas like Agent Orange and the death of the Vietnamese. “Generations untold WILL pay-Execrable effects of Agent Orange spray!” This show that the poem is talking about the many innocent generation that will pay for what the Americans have done which is the Agent Orange spray.

Language/Diction: The poem is showing that the poet is angry with the Americans. “America did not foresee Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri!” The poet is angry as the Americans did not see that the Rainbow Herbicides could kill people.

Personal Response: This poem is saying that the effects of war are very damaging. During war, deaths not only happen on the spot but also after it. Most of the time, the future generation are affected by by the works of their older generation.

Sec 2 Home Learning

Based on your understanding of the selected poem, perform extensive web research and write a report on your blog detailing the conflict represented in the poem(s) of your choice. Bear in mind that this piece of background information will allow your blog audience to further understand the poem as well as your analysis of the poem in Task 2.

Be sure to include your references and credit your sources.

Poem:

Rainbow Death

America did not foresee Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri! Expecting others to pay a high price. Now thinking twice? Toll on the innocent and unborn. Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn. Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead. All the deceit continues to spread. Nefariously America led astray - Generations untold WILL pay - Execrable effects of agent orange spray! Hubert Wilson

Hubert Wilson was a Vietnam war veteran who served in the USAF along a dozen or so intelligence school grads who prepared for about 14 months at Kelly AFB in San Antonio, Texas, before anticipating being sent to Vietnamor elsewhere in southeat Asia in 1970. Half went to Da Nang while the rest went to Alaska.

Hubert Wilson health problems started about 15 years ago with unexplainable headache and limp pain.Central nervous system radically deteriorated with Parkinsonian type tremors, severe headaches, progressive limb pains about 4 years ago. No doctor could tell him what was wrong with him. He guessed that it was the contaminated water he drank at Shemya during his year there as an intelligence analyst.

Since his brain was functioning well, he turned to writing like his late father.

This poem is talking about the effects of war and how it affects the people involved in the war even when the war ended. Mnay people in Vietnam were affected by the war and which caused 400,000 deaths and 500,000 babies which were born with defects.

Term 2 Lesson 4: War - Living Hell

Dear diary,

Today marks the day the war ends.It has been a horrible time in there. Every direction i look i can see blood....Blood and MORE BLOOD! There are hands, legs, eyes, ears and EVEN ORGANS! Now that the war has finally ended, everything has gone back to normal....I think? Even though i am out of the war already, every single gursome memory of it is still stuck in my mind. I will never forget how my friends were blown up into prices. Those memories left me countless sleepless nights. Those were the horrible moments. Everytime i see my missing finger, the images of my fellow countrymen dying for the country flashed through my mind. I will then break down into tears and cry ): * sobs * I cant never why countries go into these kind of human torture. It is not the ministers that are feeling the pain. But it is the soldiers that are feeling the pressure as the fate of the countries are on their shoulders. I really hate war. It not only give hardship to everyone but also put the people involved through lots of hell. And when i mean "hell" i really mean it ._. Every time i look out of the window, i can only hear gun shots, cannons going off, people shouting, crying and many other horrible, terrible sounds. If i recorded the scene at the war, i could make an R21 movie. The whole time i tried to imagine that i was watching a Gore movie. But once i blink, it looks like the gore movie had appeared in reality. If only world peace was something you could buy, I think the different countries would not mind using all their fortunes to buy it down. I really really hope that the war does not ever ever ever happen again. If it does, i rather commit suicide than to see my friends dying one by one.......