The Broken War

This painting is acrylic and it shows soldiers with firing weapons in Vietnam as civilians walk by. The purpose of this painting is to show how war interjects in the civilian lives. There are many soldiers in the painting, some with weapons and others not; but it also shows the civilians continuing their daily lives carrying goods. I believe this painting is powerful because the civilians are depicted as people who don’t bat an eye at the soldiers fighting and being directly in their town, which shows that they are desensitized to the fighting.

This poem seems to be an anti-war poem that reveals the pain the soldiers have gone through. The author compares the fighting to a human personified version of evil. The poem's description illuminates all of the death that the war has caused and how much it has affected so many people around it