In the poem, "All Things Not Considered" by Naomi Shihab Nye, the speaker emphasize on terrorism, brutality and death. What comes to my mind when I read this poem, it is all about terrorism and conflict between Jewish and Palestinians. The most important issue highlighted in this poem is about the flaws of religion, which the main factor of conflict between these two community.This poem begins with "You cannot stitch the breath back into this boy" ,which I think the hint of brutality and death.
In a way, this poem continue with "A brother and sister were playing with toys when their room exploded" and this strongly show that the brutal death of innocent children. This line speaks about people who are affected by war and violence takes the life of innocent people. Other example of brutality we can see in this poem is in line 8 "Mohammed al-Durra huddled against his father in the street, terrified" . The word "huddled" describe how they stay together because they are frightened. Besides that, death of 4 month girl is also example of violence in this poem. What I notice is, many of Palestinians were killed than Jewish.
The tension of this poem is inn stanza 13, "some picked up guns because guns were given", which means the people just do the violence to their enemy without knowing the solid reason why they doing it.
Sarcasm also used in this poem
"If this is holy,
could we have some new religions please?"
*To show flaws of religion
*All religions don't have violence in it, yet why conflict and war still happen between Jewish and Palestinians?
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