What Were they Like?

• Vietnam post war - destruction of culture
• Professer at stanford
• British but moved to USA
• Free Verse
• Question & Answer
• Adjacency Pairs unusual
• no more buds",
• Enjambment - Flow "but after their children werelliked there men
• Caesura "Who can say? It is sident now!"
• Repetition "It is not remembered, Remember,"
• Speaker: 'Sir, their light hearts turned to stone.'
• Metaphor


  "Sir, their light hearts turned to stone."
• Alliteration


  "laughter is bitter to the burned mouth"
• Sibilance


  "bombs smashed those Seasan"
• Simile


  "their speech which was like a song"
• Rhetorical Questions


  "Who can say?"
• Sir, their light hearts herned to stone,: '"asian laughter is bitter to the burned mouth"'
• Sibilance "bombs smashed those mirrors"'