Postcards To Columbus By Sherman Alexie And I Go Back To May 1937 By Sharon Olds: Theme Of War (Essay Sample)

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Postcards to Columbus” by Sherman Alexie and “I go back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds: Theme of War
War or rather violence alternately takes on the role of chaos, destructions, and order in the two poems by the poets Alexie and Olds. The chaos of war is obvious even in our contemporary world. Although a large portion of these two poems focuses on war based on too different divergence views on this theme of violence, associated in our minds and criteria – headed strategy and sensible reasoning, motion, and norms constantly emphasizes the irrational motives of human behaviors in both the two poems. Firstly, Sherman poem describes violence in ethnic American while Sharon Olds is of violence in family setup. The term war brings to affirmation a representation of physical or emotional assault to a person’s imagination or dream like experience. In most occasions, the people affected due to causes are unaware of the violence inflected upon them. To come to term with the two poets on the theme of war, violence from time immemorial, still dominate in our society.
Sharman Alexie and Sharon Olds in their piece of work as poets must have seen that war normally do not just occur, as Almighty says let it be, no there are causal and an alarm of it. War normally occurs when two parties or more disagree on certain terms and condition based on the co-existence of the parties involves. Starting with Sharon Olds, we see violence starts immediately after her parents engaged. The poet is disturbed by her parents’ divorce coursed by the father who is alcoholic. This family set up starts their marriage life immediately after school. The poet regrets from the fact that she experiences this kind of treatment from her parents and wish to go back in olden days to stop this kind of marriage never to occur. This is seen even from the start of the poem, I go back to May, from the present time the parents met in school when they were both seems to be innocent of the situation. The poet describe the causal of this breakup that leads to the father death, we see the father to be responsibe for this as he is an alcoholic and causes violence in this family making the poet to experience miserable life. Therefore, the cause of this domestic violence is because of the father who is alcoholic and the mother who cannot take it with ease to accommodate him.
In the second poem by the poet Sherman Alexie, the kind of violence here is tradition, it starts from the discovery of the native American spreading to the West Indies. The poem is full of sarcasm and derision. The fact Columbus was born from a poor background, the poet still considers him as a hero and made discovery. The poet’s piece of art portrays anger, the poet is angry on behalf of the entire Native American population. Therefore, the cause of this war is based on the discovery made by Chris toper Columbus who does not consider that what he portrays to be a discovery was already in existence and even people were e already living here.
In Alexie piece of work, the Indian feel Columbus cheat them. Columbus sold the entire world and the whole of the Native American soil a huge lie, and they bought it as the poet suggest. He also sold a house built on stilts belonging to the ...