The poet's use of quotation marks and dramatic shift in word choice in this excerpt from "Attack the Water" suggest that these words are coming from another source, such as the news.
This accounts for the change in word choice, as the news, would have been written or spoken by someone else. Also, adding this to the poem helps describe the situation in Vietnam from an outside standpoint.
Literal meaning: you look like my aunt linda, close that door, math is my worst subject.
figurative meaning: shut your trap, the sun smiled down on us throughout the picnic, he has perfect vision but he’s blind all the same.
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The adjective is 'difficult' since it is describing the maze.
