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Ximena’s opinion:

“Changed Landscape” was written by Günter Eich, he was a man that knows how to transmit to us the feelings caused by war. He said that he wrote about the atomic bomb in Japan and so many other events during WW2.

.Reading this poem makes me feel like losing all hopes owing to it talks about sadness and it brings me thoughts about loneliness and death. 

I think the author wanted the world to know the consequences of war, not only death and chaos, but loneliness, sadness and other emotions that can make you feel depressed.

While researching about the author,I read that he is believed to have been in an american prison camp in the US in 1945 and at that time he started to write his poems. This may be the reason why this poem talks about sad feelings, since he lived and experienced these emotions and he knows what loneliness and sadness can cause you, specially if you have lost hope. 

This poem reminds me sad movies about war, where the main character suffers about death and starving as a result of  war, this kind of movies are very sad, just like this poem that shows you the horrible consequences of war. 

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Poppy

For the world is forgetting again.

Why are they selling poppies, Mummy?

Selling poppies in town today.

The poppies, child, are flowers of love.

For the men who marched away.

But why have they chosen a poppy, Mummy?

Why not a beautiful rose?

Because my child, men fought and died

In the fields where the poppies grow.

But why are the poppies so red, Mummy?

Why are the poppies so red?

Red is the colour of blood, my child.

The blood that our soldiers shed.

The heart of the poppy is black, Mummy.

Why does it have to be black?

Black, my child, is the symbol of grief.

For the men who never came back.

But why, Mummy are you crying so?

Your tears are giving you pain.

My tears are my fears for you my child.

Fernanda’s opinion:

 When I’m bored or not busy, I like to think, think about how the society works. I have noticed we are simply complicated. We are such an interesting creature but also strange species. I feel like a child trying to explain what’s war but she just doesn’t know how it works, she had contact with it but she doesn’t know how to explain such a terrible act.

Every year thousands of people are killed on our roads, how can we be so calm trying to pretend we are okay when we are killing us each other and feeling proud or just nothing. First, Isn’t conscience what distinguishes us from the animals? Second, why it seems we don’t really use it for important things?

We are so immersed in material things that we tend to forget the real valuable aspects of life. Lennon said that if everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then we would be at peace. He was believed to have been one of the most influential people in young society.

With this poem I could almost touch the sharpness of her words whispering a sad memory. I can feel nothing but compassion and a lot of empathy with the victims of the World War II.

I don’t want to know how painful it was to tell your children their dad wasn’t coming home again or knowing your family will have to pass for inhuman treats just because of the search for power from others.

In conclusion, I wish people would never had to pass through the pain of a war, I really do.

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Holocaust

We played, we laughed

we were loved.

We were ripped from the arms of our

parents and thrown into the fire.

We were nothing more than children.

We had a future.

We were going to be doctors, lawyers,

rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers.

We had dreams, then we had no hope.

We were taken away in the dead of night

like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering,

crying, starving, dying.

Separated from the world to be no more.

From the ashes, hear our plea.

This atrocity to mankind can not happen again.

Remember us, for we were the children

whose dreams and lives were stolen away.

 - Barbara Sonek

Sheilyn’s opinion:

Notably this poem keeps a maelstrom of emotions and thoughts deep within such as anguish, hope, fear. In addition, this poem gives to readers that chest tightness through its verses and words of how it was to be captive at the Holocaust during World War II, how this horrible happening took away thousands of lives and with them their dreams and future as well. As shown by Barbara Sonek: “We were going to be doctors, lawyers, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope.” Simple shout outs of hope, yet hideous meaning. Furthermore, hope, as the strongest driving force of humanity, was stolen away, turned into ashes in an instant. That was the worst atrocity ever committed. Moreover, it is said war never fails to get the worst of people and Sonek’s poem is another testimony of it. All the attention was directed to this occurrence, however no one truly tried to get to an agreement promptly. 

On the whole, this poem was believed to have been the thoughts of those souls meant to be great. The emotions overflows every single word, capturing your attention and make you wonder who the people described might be. And it hits you suddenly. Children who were not able to live.