A. what is the point of view of this poem?


b. who is the speaker and who is being addressed?


c. what is the effect of the line’s indentation?


d. what is the effect of the imagery in the highlighted lines?


e. what is the effect of the rhetorical question at the end of the poem?


f. what seems to be the poet’s attitude about war?

these questions are on wole soyinka's "civilian and soldier" poem here it is
my apparition rose from the fall of lead,
declared, 'i am a civilian.' it only served
to aggravate your fright. for how could i
have risen, a being of this world, in that hour
of impartial death! and i thought also: nor is
your quarrel of this world.

you stood still
for both eternities, and oh i heard the lesson
of your training sessions, cautioning -
scorch earth behind you, do not leave
a dubious neutral to the rear. reiteration
of my civilian quandary, burrowing earth
from the lead festival of your more eager friends
worked the worse on your confusion, and when
you brought the gun to bear on me, and death
twitched me gently in the eye, your plight
and all of you came clear to me.

i hope some day
intent upon my trade of living, to be checked
in stride by your apparition in a trench,
signaling, i am a soldier. no hesitation then
but i shall shoot you clean and fair
with meat and bread, a gourd of wine
a bunch of breasts from either arm, and that
lone question - do you friend, even now, know
what it is all about?
highlighted lines are "but i shall shoot you clean and fair
with meat and bread, a gourd of wine " ?

d rising action

he agrees with the monk's positions.

hi there!

one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.