THE ASIANS DYING

The Asians Dying

The Asians Dying

Merwin's "Asians Dying" is his most famous poem openly about the war in Vietnam, that the assessment is infiltration deserve, surrounded by echoes from the political criticism and poetry. I was fascinated by the theme of the poem as many people do not discuss about that War nowadays, and by reading the picture of the event, I can feel that I saw the war by my own eyes. I quote the verses of the poem, in order, interspersed with my comments. "When the forests were destroyed," he writes, "is their darkness" and the seriousness and ...