Information Cards

• Summary

  -soldier haunted

  -story of bank looter being shot

  -soldier has PTSD of this moment
• Poet's Messages

  -Trauma of soldiers

  -brutality of war leads to desensitization

  -humans nature to kill
• Concepts

  -Internal conflict

  -Dehumanization

  -Duty

  -Futility
• Structure

  -caesura

  -strict stanzas

  -a tiny bit of rhyme
• Context

  -based on testimony

  -set in Basra in Iraq
• Comparison

  Kamikaze - all about internal conflict