Elauria, Desi Margaret B.

Mexe-4201
A School Boy’s Apology
By Le Thanh Huan

Structure
[1] If sometimes I fall asleep in a lecture
[2] Or shout and scream as if alone
S-1
[3] Please forgive me, please don’t be angry
[4] For I have no place to play.

[5] I’m growing up I want to be a sailor

S-2 [6] I’m wishing for a giant arena, a stream

[7] I feel like yelling my life is beginning
Personification
[8] Every minute I want to hold tight to my dreams.

[9] But the fires of war have shriveled my joys Hyperbole

[10] At every step I see guns turned on me

[11] At every word I hear the crash of steel
S-3 [12] Not believing, not understanding I only stare.
[13] The slaughter goes on and on,
[14] Blood and bones and hatred all strained red.

[15] People running from the front to look out for themselves
[16] Cheating, lying, stabbing others in the back Euphemism

[17] Some of my friends have fallen.

S-4
[18] No one knew, no one cared, they were dewdrops that’s all.
[19] My home will be burnt to the ground
[20] The way back cut off, partitioned... Metaphor
Language
 Hyperbole
 Personification
 Euphemism
 Metaphor
Affect
Mood
 Unhappy
 Traumatic
 Loneliness
Tone
 The experience of a school boy during the war that gives him traumatic memories
Meaning
Theme
 History of Vietnam especially their war history that war killed millions of soldiers,
villagers, men, women, etc
Symbolism
 It symbolizes the understanding that the school boy suffers from his experience in the war
that gives him a traumatic disorder
 Elauria, Desi Margaret B.
Mexe-4201
Inside Submarines
by Phan Nhien Hao tr. Linh Dinh

Metaphor
Structure [1] We live inside odd-shaped submarines
[2] chasing after secrets and the darkness of the ocean
[3] on a voyage toward plastic horizons Assonance

[4] where vague connections can never be reached

S-1
[5] and hopes are not deployed
[6] before the storm arrives and the alarm command starts
[7] to rouse the last illusions to stand up and put life jackets on
[8] looking to each other for help

[9] Once I was at the equator

[10] trying to slice the earth in half along the dotted line
[11] but someone held my hand and said: Hyperbole
S-2
[12] “If you do that, friend, water will fall into the void,
[13] and then our submarine Assonance
[14] won’t have any place to dive.”
Language
 Hyperbole
 Assonance
 Metaphor
Affect
Mood
 Sadness
 Hopeless
Tone
 The experience of person working in submarine being a crew is not easy

Meaning
Theme
 Suffering and Hopeless in life
Symbolism
 It symbolizes courage in life to be brave in problems of life that we faced.