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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Task 1 Home Learning 26th May
" We slept with Our Boots on "
The poem " We slept with Our Boots on " is a piece of war poetry written by Steve Carlsen. He was born and lives in Dowagiac Michigan. Steve Carlsen joined the U.S Army in October 2000 before going to Infantry Basic Training, and Airborne School in Ft. Benning Georgia. He was deployed to Kosovo in November 2001 to play a part in the peacekeeping operations there. After that, he was deployed to Afghanistan in December 2002, where he participated in combat operations before being honorably discharged from the army in 2003. Steve Carlsen currently attends Southwestern Michigan College where his professor challenged him to write about his experiences in poems such as " We slept with Our Boots on " and " Take your pills ", etc.
The poem describes the series of events that happened from take-off in the aircraft to the combat situation that the poet has experienced. The words used in the poem were descriptive and you can easily understand the situation that the poet was in during the combat. The poet mentioned in the poem that the soldiers had to continue fighting the enemy, whether they liked it or not, in the part, "We’re leaving this bird whether we like it or not". This is the part where they most probably are parachuting from the aircraft onto the front lines where they were to continue fighting the enemy. I believe that this situation is something that the poet had experienced before as he was a paratrooper during his time in the army.
The intense combat is also vividly described in the poet, from the pumping of adrenaline to the poet running "as fast as I can through the lead rain", which refers to the bullets that rained down on them like rain. The poet is trying to stay alive as he tries his best to save himself from almost certain death in a situation like this. We can also tell that the fighting is continuous and extremely exhausting from "We fought from the valleys to the mountain peaks
From house to cave, to car to creek".
The poet is aware of his impending doom, as he wrote, "Who knew hell was so close to God", the hell refers to the situation he was now in, the terrible conditions of the combat area, and God refers to the time when he dies and is about to be with God.
The poem describes the series of events that happened from take-off in the aircraft to the combat situation that the poet has experienced. The words used in the poem were descriptive and you can easily understand the situation that the poet was in during the combat. The poet mentioned in the poem that the soldiers had to continue fighting the enemy, whether they liked it or not, in the part, "We’re leaving this bird whether we like it or not". This is the part where they most probably are parachuting from the aircraft onto the front lines where they were to continue fighting the enemy. I believe that this situation is something that the poet had experienced before as he was a paratrooper during his time in the army.
The intense combat is also vividly described in the poet, from the pumping of adrenaline to the poet running "as fast as I can through the lead rain", which refers to the bullets that rained down on them like rain. The poet is trying to stay alive as he tries his best to save himself from almost certain death in a situation like this. We can also tell that the fighting is continuous and extremely exhausting from "We fought from the valleys to the mountain peaks
From house to cave, to car to creek".
The poet is aware of his impending doom, as he wrote, "Who knew hell was so close to God", the hell refers to the situation he was now in, the terrible conditions of the combat area, and God refers to the time when he dies and is about to be with God.
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