DRAMATIC MONOLOGUES

Poem Theme Quote Technique Effect

My Lai Brutality of war Bodies bloat in the sun.

Who would have
thought that they would
lie so heavily upon my
heart?

Loss One life, one field, one

wife. Now the village
burns

Blood is sticky. I have

lived too long.

Dehumanising As the cry Ill get me Pronoun that The use of the pronoun that in conjunction with the word one
nature of war that one emphasises the impersonal manner in which the soldier
views the villager. It is as though the villager is being hunted
and only worth identifying for the purpose of being hunted
down and shot.