Merwin’s Most Explicit Anti-Vietnam War Poem (1502 words, 7 pages)
William Rueckart"The Asians Dying" is Merwin's mostexplicit anti-Vietnam War poem. Though the poem is neither overtly political notanti-American, no American reader who lived through that time would need to have thepoem's powerful self-accusing political thrust explained. Though the poem mostlyconcentrates on effects rather than causes, those responsible are everywhere present ...
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