While reading both poems I contemplated which one to write about. They both seemed a bit depressing.
The Colonel made me feel disgusted inside while reading it. Reading the authors headnote gave me a better understanding to the way the poem was written. I honestly think it was written very well. It definitely illustrated her point of view across in a very image oriented way. The way Carolyn places violent images with ordinary images makes the colonial house a scary place. I honestly would not want to be there, no thank you. When she discusses how the general gets out an ordinary bag that holds groceries in them with a bag of ears that were like dried peach halves. Now that paints an image. An image that is disturbing in my ways. I think this has something to do with the way the general treated the people. Its pretty violent if you ask me. The story if about El Salvador I believe from reading the headnote. What I get from Carolyns perspective is how human rights are violated by the country and/or the general. Basically not giving them the opportunity to hear. However, some ears do hear. No matter the violence a country places on their people, someone will always hear it and news we spread. Even if those that heard it are no longer living. Now that is pretty powerful to me. The ears being dropped also shows that through the violence people are sometimes forced to listen and others just refuse by being 'pressed to the ground'. Maybe that means that they are in denial about the violence or that the violence has forced them to be silenced. Not quite sure I can not definitely see it in different perspectives. I think it definitely has a big role to do with human rights and somehow the word "english" indicates to me that americans were involved somehow and/or had an influence on such rights.
well those are my.
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