1. A Martian Sends A Postcard Home Explication
Water, a spiritual cleanser, is mentioned in both poems. Water seems to symbolize that no matter how much evil exists salvation is possible because where there is evil there is also good. ... I am fortunate to come to this poem fresh without prior knowledge of its contents. ...
The fresh air he could felt and green sight he could see everywhere that surrounded by the clouds. ... The choke is metaphorical to describe the spring water hit on the rocks and cannot flow smoothly. Furthermore, while the meandering spring water hitting the rock, as if sobbing and sighing softly for the pain and sorrows of life. ...
The trenches were filled with smells of contamination as they walk through the freezing cold water that they had to persist on tramping in. ... Their moral is very low and so the officers don't want the fresh recruits to see them so they have a traffic light system where the new recruits go up one tunnel to the front line while the wounded come down the other tunnel so their disturbing injuries can't be seem. ...