Children in Exile (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Fenton
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: 1970’s, Children, United States or Americans, Europe or Europeans, Asia or Asians, Vietnam War, War, Italy or Italians, Civil wars
The Poem
“Children in Exile” is written in forty-nine stanzas of four lines each, an extra line space being inserted in the last stanza. The poem begins with a direct quote from a child in exile, who states one of the keynotes of the poem, that what one is is less important than what one does. Readers then are made aware of the general subject of the poem—that it involves children from Cambodia in exile in a strange country (readers later learn that this is Italy) in roughly the late 1970’s. Though still children, the exiles “have learnt much.” Far from being...
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