My First Exploratory Drafts and Notes (All Things Not Considered by Naomi Shihab Nye)

        In the poem entitled, “All Things Are Considered” by Naomi Shihab Nye, the poet describes the whole event through straightforward words. Through the title, syntax, diction, imagery and mimesis we know that the poet means that the wars can cause a lot of destruction and lots of people had suffered. This war is happen among the Arab country because she had used a lot of example of Arab people. The poet makes a statement about the dead of a boy, the bombing of a home and the killing of innocent boy.

      

        Through diction like ‘you cannot stitch the breath’ means that the boy had died and you cannot simply get a life back.  There is more that had been killed brutally by the wars such ‘Mohammed al-Durra huddled against his father in the street , terrified. The whole world saw him die”. There is no place for humanity. Anyone who is trying to act like a hero will die, whether being shot or bombed.  The poet had said “if this holy, could we have some new religion please?” showed that she have the problem in believing the religions that exist because it doesn’t seems one of those religions could save the world from wars. War had taken everything from human. It took our loves one. There is no mercy in war, whether you are a man, a woman or children like ‘An Arab father on crutches burying his 4 month daughter’.

        The victims of war will being a refugee and seek a better place to stay. They need to take their children away from their country to avoid from being kill. They will not even know what mean by having a home because they need to struggle on their journey in a foreign place to save their life. They only can voice out through the distance.  Everyone that involves in wars is wrong. There is no ways that consider wars as a good action. If the both sides could stand together and achieve a decision maybe the war could be stop and the people will stop suffering.

        

        Everyone is realized that war is a mistake. But it seems everyone had just being deaf and blind to step forward to stop this situation. The victims of war need to do everything to survive. They need to use guns to protect themselves.  But for those who did not have any guns they just use what they could use to defend themselves and their country.  ‘Generation of Black’ means that they don’t have any freedom and their life always full of terrified moments.