分析英文詩What do i remember of the evacuation?

2008-05-09 5:05 pm
What Do I Remember of the Evacuation? -Joy Kogawa

What do I remember of the evacuation?
I remember my father telling Tim and me
About the mountains and the train
And the excitment of going on a trip.
What do I remember of the evacuation?
I remember my mother wrapping
A blanket around me and my
Pretending to fall asleep so she would be happy
Although I was so excited I couldn't sleep
(I hear there were people herded
Into the Hastings Park like cattle.
Families were made to move in two hours
Abandoning everything, leaving pets
And possessions at gun point.
I hear families were broken up
Men were forced to work. I heard
It whispered late at night
That there was suffering) and
I missed my dolls.
What do I remember of the evacuation?
I remember Miss Foster and Miss Tucker
Who still live in Vancouver
And who did what they could
And loved the children and who gave me
A puzzle to play with on the train.
And I remember the mountains and I was
Six years old and I swear I saw a giant
Gulliver of Gulliver's Travels scanning the horizon
And when I told my mother she believed it too
And I remember how careful my parents were
Not to bruse us with bitterness

And I remember the puzzle of Lorraine Life
Who said "Don't insult me" when I
Proudly wrote my name in Japanese
And Tim flew the Union Jack
When the war was over but Lorraine
And her friends spat on us anyway
and I prayed to the God who loves
All the children in his sight
That I might be white.

分析下theme of the poem ??
uniform - yes or no
literature device??

呢首詩左頭果段達左作者戰爭時既心情+狀況,但最後果段待唔明咩意思。

回答 (1)

2008-05-09 7:46 pm
✔ 最佳答案
其實呢首詩既作者係 加拿大藉的日本人,
佢同時有兩個身份, 加拿人 / 日本人,
最尾果段, 有一個叫Lorraine 的人,
詩入面沒提及係邊個,

And I remember the puzzle of Lorraine Life
(我記得Lorraine的困惑)

Who said [Don;t insult me] when I
Proudly wrote my name in Japanese
(當我好自豪咁寫左我既日本名,
個女仔話 [不要侮辱我] )


And Tim flew the Union Jack
(然後Tim [作者的家人] 飛番去英國)

When the war was over but Lorraine
And her friends spat on us anyway
當戰爭完結後, Lorraine向著我們吐口水


and I prayed to the God who loves
All the children in his sight
That I might be white.
然後我向愛小孩的神祈求自己是白人


自己的見解:
Lorraine應該係白人, 所以才鄙視作者, 係World War II,
大國都會排斥日本人, 因為日本係極權主義國家,
發起了不少戰爭, 例如: Pearl Harbour Incident
所以你可以見倒作者的苦衷...


Theme of the poem:

It shows the bitterness of the Japanese-Canadian during
the Second World War.
They had no identity and they were being discriminated against.
The poet was excited at first about the evacuation,
but then he started to feel greif. The whites disliked him.


Uniform:

No regular rhyme is found in the poem. It is prose-like(散文體)


Literature device:

Reputation - What do I remember of the evacuation?



** 呢 d 只不過係我覺得既野, 你要再細味下,
找出自己的看法! =)
參考: Self / dictionary / Asian Presence in NA films


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