Summary of PoemThe Gift in Wartime : By Tran Mong Tu
The Gift in Wartime [ Summary, Analysis, Interpretation, and Important Questions - Answers] (Tran Mong Tu :The Poet) A Short Summary : This a war poem. In it we find a woman mourning the death of her husband. He was in war, and lost his life in war field. She talks about gifts which they gave each other. Her gifts were things like rose on his grave, her wedding gown, her youth. In return, she received gifts like his medals, badges, his dead body, shrapnel, his blood stained uniform. A second thought on his gifts makes it clear that such gifts are not from the husband. No husband can send such deadly gifts to his wife. These are gifts from 'war' itself. These are war's gifts not only to this woman, but to all those who lose their people in war. Wars are not only terrible to widows or war survivors, but they are terrible to whole of the humanity. -------------------------------------------------------------- Summary : The Gift in Wartime is a war poem which tells us t