literature of the World Project by Royales, Erwin O.

I: Introduction

The author of this poem is Bryan Thao Worra, half American and half Laos,           attitudes gives significances to all realization, taking on the right and then to the other side, making everything. Memories not to be ended but continually progressing, hence, may some come back, loss and gain again, sometime were on the top but thus is permanent well all go down.-this the cycle. .Law of balance. How memories did permit such things? Is it to remember bad things or good things?

II: The literary piece (poem)

RAVEN REMEMBERS

Blackbirds in a cold war

Filled my skies for a lifetime:

Freedom, death, life, hope

Screeching from the shadows

Secrets in the eye of the beholder

A world of strange love and full metal jackets:

A round of drinks in a Saigon bar

Or among the Hmong Mountain bears

And a round of ammunition for the cannons-

Who had time for cannons and guided missiles?

Seeing so much, seeing so little

Gaining nothing, giving everything

Smashed like a shot glass in the name of policy

Screwed to an ejection seat built by the lowest contact bidder

Forbidden by the rules of engagement that made more widows

Than I want to remember.

How many times did I see the Missing Man

Missing you, praying the enemy would be missing me?

Was I missing the point in trying to stay until all of our friends could leave

When we weren’t even supposed to be there at all?

The song of neutrality in the season of extremes

Drew fire from the ground, a volcano of hate from strangers

Who didn’t even know what they were dying for.

Who were they dying for in this puppet game?

A bear? A dragon? Old Ho Chi Minh and his trail in the kingdom of Elephants?

It’s just a road, it’s just a mountain, it’s just rock.

But it’s not just a village filled with children,

Grandmothers and grand fathers who didn’t understand

What we were fighting over

And now, I wonder, who really understood at all?

Centuries ago, raven brought light into the world –a white trickster burnt black by the trip

The bird of prophets, whispering wisdom in the ears of ancient Greeks and old one eyed Odon. Drawing life, the strength to fly from the dead

And everything everyone else abandoned.

Defending those who could not defend themselves,

Raven remembers, Raven remembers.

Raven remembers and fought and circled and saw.

Raven saw the road breaks.

Raven saw the hearts and minds won and lost.

Raven saw the refugees amid the warriors and the last,

Raven knew. Unarmed obsolete and

Unarmed, like a knight, without question,

Raven never looked back as he dove toward the enemy-

The snakes in the tiger grass, calling for death, watching his brothers

Fall from the sky, one by one, captured, crippled or dying in everything but their hearts

That dared to believe in the power of freedom, the power of the future

The dream of the day when they would raise their drinks with the words

“Nevermore” as they nailed the damned lid on the coffin of war.

III: Literary analysis (elements/approach)

Language:

          Languge was incomparably used, the author uses such hard words to express his thought in his piece, thus greater comprehension and deeper understanding was the requirement in this kind of poem to appreciate the message.

Tone:

          Modes of the author seems that its a combination of sad and good mood that changes drastically depending on the line construction, emotions greatly affects the readers that the author relates himself in doing his work.

Imagery:

          Author makes his work very creative, applying all the principle of imagery. Giving emphasize to his message by mixing it with concrete words and thoughts. That makes the reader to visualize he image he had created in the work.

Sound and Rhythms:

          Lines was made more simplier but with the side effects of to much deeper meanings, structures to be observe has the rhythmic alliteration making it more easier to designates sounds and the tones of the poem.

Thoughts and Meanings:

          In our life nothing was permanent, all many leave and gone. But is the only permanent thing in this world. Remembering what had happened in the past is not good it is better to apply the lesson you had learned from it, to make you more stronger

IV: Conclusion

The poem is very deep meaning, that many couldn’t understand, so much thing remembering was just likes raven that passes only on one thing leasing without going back but lefts memories that couldn’t easily to forget.