The Question and Answer section for Naming of Parts is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
"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...
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...
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...
