Question

Read these lines from the poem "vapor trail reflected in the frog pond" by galway kinnell:in the frog pondthe vapor trail of a sac bomber creeps, i hear its drone, drifting, high up in immaculate ozone.which sentence best describes one effect of the poet's use of imagery in this excerpt?

Answer 1

When Kinnell sets out to make a poem he doesn’t aim for it to be political, but the associations he perceives are political. In the poem Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond, the narrator, a Vietnamese villager, overhears “America singing,” the melody existence the crunching of rifles varied with a bomber plane’s buzz. Thus, it gaps war and peace by telling a bomber in contradiction of the backdrop of a peaceful setting.

Answer 2

It contrasts war and peace by describing a bomber against the backdrop of a peaceful setting. (APEX)