Analysis Of 'The Colonel' By Carolyn Forche

To yield resistance deform our spirit.It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. War isn’t always a right answer or something we are proud of well, maybe some of us, but war still has huge outcome in our lives and outcome that can change who you are in good or bad way, and these outcomes can come from different perspectives,point view and here’s one of them . In “ The Colonel “, by Carolyn Forche uses simple diction , selection of details , and first person to show that during the wat human rights are violated, not respected , and human behavior changes from being civilized to ruthless clareless, monsters. Forche uses simple diction in “ The Colonel : lowering the readers into a sense of safety to a surprising …show more content…
Then tell her his” tired of fooling around , as for the right of anyone, tell you people they can go f**ck themselves”. Then swept the ears onto the floor .{line 20-25} making it a dramatic moment with a twist of shock. Forche also uses selection of details she goes into a lot details of what she sees her trip and what she experiences for and example{lines 5-10} how she goes into description on what each person in the family was doing the wife carrying a tray of coffee and sugar, his daughter filing her nails son going out. Saying everything she sees” the moon swung bare on it’s black cord over the house.” “ broken bottles were embedded in the walls around the house to scoop the kneecaps from man’s legs or cut his hand to lace “. And also what she had for dinner theses were some things went into details about at the house.In lines {15-25} she talks about how the whole mood of poem changes and how it went to eating dinner to the general being mad and pulling out ear “ the colonel returned with a sack used to bring groceries home. He spilled many human ears on the table.” she describes how the ears were in simile way “ they were like dried peach halves” the describes what he did with the ears “ he took one of them in his hands, shook it in our faces, dropped it into a water glass.” majority of the poem is going into the

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