Internment by Juliet S. Kono

Speaker of "Internment"

Juliet S. Kono

Connotation "Internment"

Connotation is when you mean something else or when something might be hidden.

What words in the first stanza have connotations that suggest that Kono is comparing the imprisoned travelers to cattle? Find the simile in the second stanza that restates this comparison. How do these words help you to understand the girl's feelings?

Corralled, herded, and branding. "Which holds them in like stolid cattle". She thinks she is being treated like an object that you can own.

Setting of "Internment"

1942 during World War 2 - Santa Rosa Texas

What is a diction poem? "Internment"

A poem with the writer's choice of words in all writing. Poem where poets choose their words very carefully, painstakingly made through revisions and not complete

Denotation "Internment"

Denotation is a literal meaning or the dictionary definition. It's exactly what you say.

What could the dewdrops in Kono's poem symbolize, or stand for? )Consider the significance of the fact that the fragile dewdrops are "impaled" on the barbed wire but are still "golden"

Her tears. No matter how much she has been hurt, she still remains the same.

Instances of figurative language in "Internment"

Imagery, simile, Allusion, idiom and connotation

Describe the place where she finds herself upon waking "Internment"

She finds herself waking on unfamiliar barracks that had previously been a pasture and she was rounded up, feeling like cattle

In Kono's poem, what does the girl see that she considers beautiful? Why is she reluctant to find beauty in her situation?

She saw the sun. She is reluctant to see beauty in her situation because she is in an awful place.

The diction on line 22. What connotation go with the words impaled? What other words could the poet have used to describe how the dewdrops is fixed on the barbed wired?

Something that is being stabbed.

Theme of "Internment"

There's beauty even in ugliness.

Meaning of "Internment"

Treating people like animals strips them of their human rights and dignity, and it is wrong, but it does not necessarily destroy them.

in the first stanza of internment what event happens to the girl before she falls asleep?

physical exam delousing with DDT her indignation was branded