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form / structure question and answer
two stanzas: one question, one answer
volta in between
sets up two imaginary characters: one ignorant (Westerner) one informed (Vietnamese).
Written in English - as if both fluent English speakers - perhaps lack of recognition for the culture and also the culture having been destroyed
the answerer is being respectful by answering the questions
“sir” suggests the power difference.
Levertov context
political poet
nurse in ww2
was anti war
Born in ESSEX
moved to the united states post ww2
poem context
1967 published
during the height of the conflict over the Vietnam war which was controversial.
Rolling Thunder - the American’s name for the mission in Vietnam the poem is about. Suggests ignorance and arrogance
Structure
title is a rhetorical question
volta between stanzas
lots of monosyllabic language