collapse. As the common know that at April 30, 1975 that Saigon, South Vietnam has been collapse on the Communist crashed. It is as a symbol of the biggest
collapse of United State of America along the history. After two weeks
the commander calls all of us above deck
for a formal lowering of our yellow flag
with three red strips. Last Respect, stanza 1, line 1-6
Solidarity cannot be shown only with notice an event happen in front of us. We must interpret it, as the real reaction that we saw before. But at this poem
the citizen do the real extreme act that show disaffection of loosing country that has been crashed by the Communist and finally become collapse.
One woman try to throw herself overboard,
screaming that without a country she cannot live.
as the wrestle her down, a man stabs his heart
with a toothbrush.
Last Respect, stanza 3, line 1-7
3.2 Terrible Life
At first, the writer focuses on ‘He’ which is referred to the Father of Figure I. He left home for a navy mission, to faith Communist, Communist here
refers to Vietnamese Communist. He was captured by Communist, and then called as Missing in Action; it is one real act of North Vietnam aggression in the
Kinship War. He was captured
on Route I an hour south of the city
by moped. Missing in Action, stanza 2, line 1-4
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We recognize massive violence as a kind of violence. Communist America calls the Communist as Viet Cong. Viet Cong do big bombardment
around South Vietnam, make the situation become more anxiety.
I listen to the swish, swish
of Mother’s handheld fan, the whispers among adults,
the bomb is the ever greater distance. Saigon is Gone, stanza 1, line 1-5
Terrible situation is not always really real. It is only people’s hallucination who thought that the helicopter that approaches them is Communist.
We hear a helicopter circling circling
near our ship. Saigon is Gone, stanza 5, line 1-3
Terrible people who are told before as Communists mentioned clearly, finally. They are the subject of the terrible situation happen in Saigon. They are
FPN at first Front Pembela Nasional that claim themselves as the national front from all the elements that against the government system before. The army
organization called as Angkatan Bersenjata Pembebasan Rakyat ABPR. According to the North Vietnamese Army’s formal story, APBR is under the
Hanoi leadership. In the recent time, American call them as Viet Cong, comes from Vietnamese means Vietnamese Communists Vi
ệt Nam Cộng Sản, and as usually they also call them as “Charlie”.
People run and scream, Communists
Saigon is Gone, stanza 6, line 1-2
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Again, a stanza show their massive violence, the Communists crash precidental palace and planted on the roof with their flag. Their main aim of the
long awaiting in wartime finally attained, master South Vietnam. He salutes he commander
and shouts, At noon today the communists
crashed their tanks through the gates
of the presidential palace and planted on the roof
a flag with one huge star. Saigon is Gone, stanza 12, line 1-8
The effect of massive violence causes the real worse effect. It is the collapse of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The place where the poem takes
place. It’s over;
Saigon is gone. Saigon is Gone, stanza 13, line 3-4
The worse situations are portrayed in which add how terrible the situations happened in the past, at the War time in Saigon, exactly. The Figure I,
one of Vietnamese, who was also the victim of massive violence. In this stanza is told that the Figure is really fear in the situation, the last seconds when the Saigon
is collapse.
of a burned, naked girl
running, crying down a dirt road
War and Peace, stanza 2, line 1-3
It is still talking about the last seconds when the Saigon is collapse. People around Figure I were climbing, screaming, desperate to get on the last
helicopter out of Saigon. Not only Vietnamese, the American who are still survive in Saigon, are flight with the helicopter to the USS Midway Deck Carrier.
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Meanwhile, Viet Cong troops who wore black pajamas and sandals, lead by Commander Ho Chi Minh keeps approaching to Saigon. Thousands of hopeless
people are desperate in front of the
of people climbing, screaming,
close gate of USA embassy. They only have one aim, that is flight out of Saigon.
desperate to get on the last helicopter
out of Saigon War and Peace, stanza 3, line 1-4
3.3 Love
