Poetry

Question 1

Lament

Answer 1

(Clarke)

about how every living creature and part of creation is effected by the destruction of war

• anaphora - many lines begin with ‘for’ before discussing the damage to each organism - unites - all have the same sort of level of suffering
• ‘Ahmed at the closed border’ –> represents all - immersive the reader - becomes more personal
• ‘for her eggs laid in their nest of sickness’ –> juxtaposition between ‘nest’ which connotes life, and ‘sickness’ with connotes death and pain

Question 2

Colonisation in reverse