¶ … Henry Reed is a free-versed and metaphorical poem; because of the word "we," I can say that the speaker in the person uses the first person point-of-view.
"Naming of Parts" talks about an issue termed as "the problem of war" by military historians and philosophers. In simpler language, the problem is determining whether 'war is war' is a continually recurring part of the life of human beings or a totally unexpected occurrence, a deviation from the norm. A partial answer to this question has been provided by Reed's poem. In Reeds opinion, militarism and war are not natural. For instance, in the first stanza, Reed uses a significant choice of the red-flowered Japonica. Like its name suggests, "Japanese quince" or japonica refers to something that is related to Japan- a member of the Axis powers that were allied against the U.S. and England in the Second World War. (Being an Englishman, Reeds served in the Second World War, the supposed period in which the poem was set) this effect suggests that nature goes beyond borders of countries and notions that humans have on enmity and loyalty (Palm, 1998).
Rhyme, Metaphor and Imagery
Henry Reed's poem "Naming Parts" is free-versed. This is because it does not follow any rhyme scheme; there is no rhyme within the lines of the poem. Considering the use of the word "we," the first person's perspective has been used by the speaker. The author has put a metaphor and some similes in the poem. There are a couple of similes in the poem: one is in the fifth line of stanza one while the other is in the second line of stanza five (Magno, 2015).
The metaphor is in the closing line of the fourth stanza where the word "spring" has been used to symbolize the spring season or an amour's spring. Based on this metaphor, I can state that although the character is a soldier who might be rock hard, he is also a lover of nature,...
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