The Emotional Response of Forché’s “The Colonelâ€

Through controversial interactions between individuals and politics in the collection of The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forché, she acquired the label "A Witness Poet" (Forché 30). Her work as a human rights activist in El Salvador gave her a unique perspective and many poets who thought that she was "extreme" could not do this point (Forché 28 ). This view was formed under the conditions detailed in "State among us", which is reflected in people both physically and emotionally. Forcé accomplished this by opposing the poetry of many poems and choosing a particular form of poetry to convey the proximity of politics and personal areas rather than distant.

Most of the power of "Colon" comes from the contrast between the colonel's bourgeois's private life (pet, television, lamb, wine etc.) and his barbaric public life, but Forcé does not emphasize comments Hmm. Besides, allow readers to post comments. This article is very convincing. The colonel asked the visitor, "How do you cheer up the country?", But we did not hear the reaction. "Someone talked about the difficulty of governance" Although it was not said at the beginning, it is speculated that the colonel was plagued by the comments of visitors. A lot of words. Instead, we were asked what the colonel did (he threw it on the table with his ear bag, shook it on the face of the customer, and put it in a glass of water ). Then we heard him say: "I am tired of cheating ... is he complaining, being distorted, innocent, or something?