Neil Sheehan (the author) spent over three years in Vietnam observing the war and its effects, as a correspondent for the New York Times.
In his essay, "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk" (1966), New York Times correspondent Neil Sheehan told of his experiences viewing the war close up from 1962 to 1966. "Americans, because they are Americans," he wrote, arrive in Vietnam full of enthusiasm and with the best of intentions. After a prolonged period of residence, they leave with their enthusiasm a victim of the cynicism that pervades Vietnamese life and with their good intentions lost somewhere in a paddy field." His own years in Vietnam brought Sheehan to realize that Americans were defending a government that did not deserve to be defended, one that was unable to win support from its own people or meet the needs of its people. He wrote: “Our responsibility for prolonging what is essentially a civil conflict may be one of the major reasons for the considerable amount of confusion, guilt and soul-searching among Americans over the Vietnam war.”
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B) Feeling a bit nervous, I settled back in my seat. It was my first plane ride, and I didn’t quite know what to expect.
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Answer: the primary use of symbolism in this poem is the symbolism of the rivers.
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