Soul and Body(CRR)

In class we discussed about a poem called Soul and Body. We had to look for things in the poem in our groups such as selection of details, syntax, figurative language, and diction. In my opinion the activity was a really good one. I'm not really good dissecting poems and doing it in a group helped. When Ms. Hegeman explained the theme of the poem I became more interested in the poem. I think that it is a good idea to do this with more poems in the future.

I enjoyed the poem because it talked about the struggles of a prisoner of war and how his soul and body were fighting each other. The soul said because of the body it suffered and the body said because of the soul it suffered. While I read the poem vivid forms of imagery formed in my head of a white male man trapped in a prison with shackles on and screaming. Through out the poem words are pain are repeated, which shows the hardships of the torture.

I can relate this poem to war because many of this happened such as in World War 1 and two as well as many other wars. It is hard to go through all this I believe and it takes a painful toll on the mind and body. This poem spoke to me because the diction in the poem made the imagery in my head more vivid, and it touched me emotionally in the sense that when I was reading gloomy emotions arose from me.