Point of View: The children dyeing is a sad and meaningless activity that should not happen.
Evidence: Back into the darkness. From which there is no flight. Back into the darkness. Into which there shines no light
Elaboration: By saying “back into the darkness”, the writer implies that the vicious cycle of which the children are killed is a meaningless dark cycle that “shines no light” and should not happen.
Situation and Setting: During war time
Evidence: Or will a war consume them
Elaboration: By saying “or will a war consume them”, it implies that war was one of the reason for the killing of the children
Language/ Diction: Solemn
Evidence: Could we simply light a candle. Could we give them half a chance. Could we teach.
Elaboration: It uses repetition to emphasize on the seriousness of this situation.
Personal Response The poem uses a solemn and serious mood to tell us about the the seriousness of the children dyeing, wasting their life before they have even experienced how life actually is for no good reason.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Children in the Darkness Poem Task 1
Children in the Darkness
There are children in the darkness
Who have not seen the light
There are children in the darkness
Who someone will teach to fight
Chalk and blackboards will not be
To this door there is no key
From this life they can not flee
And these children are not free
Could we simply light a candle
Could we give them half a chance
Could we teach them how to read
Could we teach them how to dance
Or will a war consume them
Their body and their soul
Will their life and blood be poured
Down some endless thirsty hole
Back into the darkness
From which there is no flight
Back into the darkness
Into which there shines no light
Henry M Bechtold
The Poem talks about how some children are hidden away and shun from society. It shows how some of these children know nothing about the real world and are therefore used by other people for their own needs.
The Poem tells us how these children cannot escape this terrible life no matter how much people try to help them. At the end, war will “eat” them alive and kill them letting them die for no good reason nor use. This Poem tells us that the children dyeing this way are a vicious cycle that will never end. It exaggerates how sad and meaningless these children dyeing are.
There are children in the darkness
Who have not seen the light
There are children in the darkness
Who someone will teach to fight
Chalk and blackboards will not be
To this door there is no key
From this life they can not flee
And these children are not free
Could we simply light a candle
Could we give them half a chance
Could we teach them how to read
Could we teach them how to dance
Or will a war consume them
Their body and their soul
Will their life and blood be poured
Down some endless thirsty hole
Back into the darkness
From which there is no flight
Back into the darkness
Into which there shines no light
Henry M Bechtold
The Poem talks about how some children are hidden away and shun from society. It shows how some of these children know nothing about the real world and are therefore used by other people for their own needs.
The Poem tells us how these children cannot escape this terrible life no matter how much people try to help them. At the end, war will “eat” them alive and kill them letting them die for no good reason nor use. This Poem tells us that the children dyeing this way are a vicious cycle that will never end. It exaggerates how sad and meaningless these children dyeing are.
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