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The Gift in Wartime by Tran Mong Tu
ABOUT THE POEM
The Gift in Wartime by Tran Mong Tu
The poem "The Gift in Wartime" is a touching poem that has been composed by a Vietnamese poet named Tran Mong Tu.
This poem has presented an inhuman picture of war. The title of the poem itself is satire for all those who prefer war over their lives. Here, as a widow, the speaker brings to the fore the painful feelings of her lonely life after losing her beloved husband in the terrible war between the US and Vietnam. Here, we find her talking to an absentee (husband) about the evil aspects of inhuman warfare that have invited a bleak future for her. The speaker is seen making his beloved realise the inhumanity and cruelty of war and even the sorrows of her lonely life after his death. She wants to give a serious lesson to all her readers that war never gives happiness to others but takes away the happiness of others and provides gifts in the form of death, blood, pain, loss, misery, etc.
MAIN SUMMARY
The Gift in Wartime by Tran Mong Tu
In total, there are seven different stanzas in this poem. The main theme here in this poem is the inhuman aspect of war and its effects on humans. The speaker has presented a terrifying picture of war, which has taken away all the happiness in her life.
In the first stanza, the speaker is offering roses to be buried in the new grave of her beloved (her husband, who is no more). The speaker wants to give her wedding gown to cover her husband's tomb, which is still green with grass. Here, we find the speaker's deep love feelings for her beloved person. She offers him roses and her wedding gown to show her deep love and affection for him.
In the second stanza, she talks about the bravery of her beloved and even the rewards she still holds in his memory. The yellow pips on medals and badges with silver stars as a war gift to her beloved are still shining with pride in his bravery. But these awards are of no use, as the person who won them bravely is no more.
In the third stanza, she tells about the days of her youth with him when she gave her youth to him as a wife. They were deeply in love in those days. Unfortunately, when she received bad news from the authorities about the death of her beloved, she lost her youth along with the death of her beloved.
In the fourth stanza, she deals with him with the inhumane picture of war and its gifts to humans. She tells him about the smell and blood of his enemy. For her, the wardress provides her with only blood in return so that she can be moved. Here, she wants to put forward her view that war only invites bad consequences for humans. It only invites terror, suffering, destruction, blood, death, etc.
In the fifth stanza, the speaker reminds her beloved about the clouds and cold winters that she has bestowed upon him. But, in return, she gets teary-eyed only during the summer days. Even the spring of her life becomes cold without him. The speaker shows her deep sorrow due to the lack of her beloved person.
In the sixth stanza, the speaker tells her absent beloved about all the things she has received from him. Due to the ill effects of war, her beloved has left her lips without a smile, her hands without tenderness, her eyes without sight, and her body without movement. This stanza has shown the pathetic condition of the speaker's lonely life without her beloved person.
In the last stanza, the speaker apologises to her beloved person and even promises to meet him in the next life. She says that she will keep the shrapnel as a token to help the two identify each other. Here, the speaker has presented the deep meaning associated with the inhuman picture of war. She wants to keep the shrapnel as evidence to give him reasons as to how this inhuman war took his life and tore them apart.
In this way, this poem has presented the very bad impacts of war on human beings.
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