Corralled, they are herded inland
from Santa Rosa.
After a long train ride
on the Santa Fe,
the physical exam,
the delousing with DDT,
the branding of her indignation,
she falls asleep,
Days later, she awakens
in an unfamiliar barracks--
Crystal City, Texas--
on land once a pasture.
Not wanting to,
not meaning to see beauty
in this stark landscape,
she sees, nonetheless,
through her tears--
on the double row
of barbed wire fencing
which holds them in
like stolid cattle--
dewdrops, impaled
and golden.
The poem "Internment" by Juliet S. Kono is about World War II and how the Japenese Americans were put into Internment camps. This poem is very emotional because it was written by someone who actually experienced this tragic event in history. An example of a simile would be "...which holds them in like stolid cattle" because of the Japenese Americans suddenly being put into the camps, they felt as if they were cows being trapped behind fences. In the end of this poem Kono describes dewdrops being golden because they are they only thing that holds beauty in her current position. The dewdrops can create a sense of imagery know as being beauty. This is a freeverse poem that expresses real feelings of what it felt like to be a Japenese American during World War II living in Interenment camps.
Corralled, they are herded inland
from Santa Rosa.
After a long train ride
on the Santa Fe,
the physical exam,
the delousing with DDT,
the branding of her indignation,
she falls asleep,
Days later, she awakens
in an unfamiliar barracks--
Crystal City, Texas--
on land once a pasture.
Not wanting to,
not meaning to see beauty
in this stark landscape,
she sees, nonetheless,
through her tears--
on the double row
of barbed wire fencing
which holds them in
like stolid cattle--
dewdrops, impaled
and golden.
The poem "Internment" by Juliet S. Kono is about World War II and how the Japenese Americans were put into Internment camps. This poem is very emotional because it was written by someone who actually experienced this tragic event in history. An example of a simile would be "...which holds them in like stolid cattle" because of the Japenese Americans suddenly being put into the camps, they felt as if they were cows being trapped behind fences. In the end of this poem Kono describes dewdrops being golden because they are they only thing that holds beauty in her current position. The dewdrops can create a sense of imagery know as being beauty. This is a freeverse poem that expresses real feelings of what it felt like to be a Japenese American during World War II living in Interenment camps.