Word: poems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LIKE PEOPLE elsewhere, Vietnamese sometimes use poetry to express political intent. The following poem--recently, published by the National Liberation Front--appears to mark an important turning point: the NLF has decided to go on the offensive against Thieu's maneuvers to sabotage the peace agreement...
...poem appeared in the February 11 issue of South Viet Nam in Struggle, a weekly publication of the Front...
...dreams Swimming with calico carps And riding Dalmatian giraffes Climbing bougainvillea vines into the skies I treasure your happiness As you hopscotch in the early rain Or tag me with bean bags And kiss my bruised neck ... -Bill Bonanno from an untitled poem to his daughter Gigi...
Falsely equating Sweeney, in the poem, with the poet, Matthews supplies no further evidence of this "general truth...
...Good fences make good neighbors," says a figure in Robert Frost's poem Mending Wall. Frost's character would make an ideal resident of Leisure Village, a 600-acre Lakewood, N.J., retirement community of 5,000 residents. The homes are guarded by a 24-hour security force. The community is bordered by a 6-ft. chain-link fence, and four years ago residents reluctantly topped one section of the fence with barbed wire after a rash of invasions by pranksters. But a mugging early last summer and recent car break-ins and gasoline siphonings have frightened the village...