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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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 ---> By : Henry M Bechtold
This poem shows what was happening to the children during the Vietnam War. It shows that the children were unable to defend for themselves as no one thought them how to fight or study. They live in darkness, waiting for the doomsday to arrive. It also shows that they had no freedom during the Vietnam War but only getting murdered by the cruel soilders.
This poem is written by a soldier who had witnessed what had happen during the war.He wrote this poem during one of his visits in 2009.He was in his hotel room in Saigon watching the news channel on the televisionjust before Christmas. As he was thinking of another poem to write , the television' background had shown a photo of a boy in a helmet holding an automatic rifle and this immediately reminds him of what happened during the Vietnam war and that inspired him to write out tis poem which was what he felt when he saw the children being ill-treated during the War, their loss of freedom.
The situation and setting is during the war period when everyone is afraid and tries to escape from getting killed in the war. The first stanza shows the ignorance of a child, in the sentence, "have not seen the light." This probably means that they are young and still in a state of darkness and ignorance, and thus, this stanza evokes sympathy in the reader as in their unknowing state, they will have to be "teach to fight." Soldiers usually fight out of a sense of patriotism or loyalty, but this children, completely unaware of anything are being taught to fight, the only thing they are learning.
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I am Oh Yong Jun from Hwa Chong Institution. Most people call me Jeffrey.You can call me that too
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