Reference no: EM132774055

Poetry of the Middle East

Part 1: Landays

Directions: Choose one of the following landays and write a paragraph to explain it. Write about each of the following:
• theme (one of the s themes known for landays: war, love, separation, grief, and homeland)
• language (think literary device(s))
• rhetoric (use of ethos, pathos, logos, or rhetorical question)

Please highlight your choice of landay and write your paragraph on following page.

You sold me to an old man, father.
May God destroy your home, I was your daughter.

Separation, you set fire in the heart and home of every lover.

My Nabi was shot down by a drone.
May God destroy your sons, America, you murdered my own.
May God destroy the Taliban and end their wars. They've made Afghan women widows and whores.

May God destroy the White House and kill the man who sent U.S. cruise missiles to burn my homeland.

Today I spilled the spinach on the floor.
Now the old goat stands in the corner swinging a two by-four.

I call. You're stone.
One day you'll look and find I'm gone.

Your eyes aren't eyes. They're bees. I can find no cure for their sting.