Dom's+Big+Wrap+Up

All of the four poems are of memories that people have had, but they are all presented in a different way. "Those Winter Sundays" is a memory of a mans childhood. "The Man He Killed" is a memory of the writer killing a man. "Incident" is a memory of an act of racism that the writer faced while in Baltimore. "Days Gone Past" is a poem on memories of all sorts. All of the poems except "Days Gone Past" seem to be from far off memories that the writers reflect on, but in "Those Winter Sundays", and "The Man He Killed" the writers attitude towards what happened have changed in the time they have had to reflect on what happened. In "Those Winter Sundays" the writer wishes that they didn't act as indifferently towards his dad, and in "The Man He Killed" the writer ponders the reason for killing the man he did. In both poems the writer is clearly regretful of what they did. The poem that had the biggest impact on me was "The Man He Killed". This is because it makes the reader think about the concept of war and its ubsurdness. The idea that if you met someone you killed on a battlefield anywhere else you could have become friends with them leaves a lasting impression, and for that reason it had the biggest impact on me. All four of the poems i read for my project were very different, but they all had the same binding topic of memories.