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Naming of Parts Questions and Answers
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"Lessons of the War I: Naming of Parts" is a poem by British journalist, translator, and poet Henry Reed, written during Reed's experience training as a military translator in Japan during World War II. It was published in the New Statesman and...
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If the gun symbolizes violence and war, then the trees, flowers, and insects the speaker spots in a nearby garden symbolize the opposite—spring, rebirth and interconnectedness. Figurative language imbues these elements of the natural world with...
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This poem is constructed as a series of oppositions between death—represented by the gun and war generally—and life—represented by bees, flowers, and trees flourishing in springtime. Through this contrast, Reed suggests that war and militarism...
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