The Image Of Education Poem Annotations

The first line starts with an idea of education “school bell” (line 1). School is a place where education is passed on to the learners. In this poem education used metaphorically in a sense that “school-bell” (line 1) seems to be the subject which is causing conflict among groups of people. When the time to learn has come the poem gives an image force which is against education. When a certain group of people take an opportunity to receive education they become the victims of education “here is the target…” (Line 3). The victims that are being shot are not just shot anywhere but they are being shot at their head to make sure that they are dead. We can see that by the words that the poet used “targeted, temple” (line 3). The groups of people that are being shot at seem to be young teenagers “from being fifteen” (line 4). The group of people being targeted in this poem is young women, the reason why I am saying that

The use of the word “missile” brings the image of a powerful for that empower these young women and the image mass murder of these young women. The use of the word “cuts” (line 6) bring an image of something sharp that cuts through and changes the thinking of a young women. I feel that the poem highlights the idea that education is a powerful weapon that a human. The poem gives an image of an area of land devoted to cultivation; in this case it is used metaphorically to describe young women who are ready to received education so that they can bear fruits of education. In my case I think the fruits of the education is the tool to women empowerment and for the young women to become critical thinkers but the government does not believe that education should be sown in young women and to be harvested “to an orchard… in a full bloom” (line 8-9). The word “poppies” brings an image that the group that is targeted is of the same social