"The Colonel" by Carolyn Forche

Another unfair image I encountered is the ear that Carolyn Forsch used in the poem "colonel". Generally speaking, the ear represents memory, awakening, and personality, but in this verse it represents the dead. In this poem, Caroline meets Colonel of El Salvador. Each ear represents a soldier who lost his life in the war. She used the next line to tell the anger of the colonel to the United States and took their policies "He took one of them and shook it to our face and threw it into the glass." (921) This is done to make people aware that they are not related to human rights. The image of the ears used in this verse is not highly recommended for readers. She uses it not only to use his ears to express the fraud he went with his own ears but also to focus on the cruel image of the soldiers during the war.

It was written in 1978 when Forsch was working at Amnesty International in El Salvador. It was a summary of a cruel encounter with poetry title "Colonel". Forche explained that the hero is a tough man in the violent world. "Colonel" does not care about the rights of his subordinates, and introduces his poor character into the poet in the poem. (Logan 1) According to William Logan (2007), the purpose of this poem is to explain the nature of barbarians reflected in the structure of poetry, which is equally cruel to the eyes and ears. .

This will compress the rhythm of gentle movement of the event until the colonel's last murderous behavior. "Colonel" has an end like a song, like two tones of "some ears". (Logan 1) As I mentioned at the beginning, Forche is near the first person's poem: "What you hear is true, I am in his house" (line 1). The strength level begins with the introduction and seems like a colonelly seemingly calm and descriptive explanation of an ordinary family - a typical wife who is doing housework, a daughter and a son, a typical typical daily life of those young people Doing