This is are the key points that caught my attention in the first poem. "I know that beat it is lifeless". "I will kill for you especially i would not die for you"." I will not morn the dead for murder or suicide". "I will not dance to bombs because everyone is dancing everyone can be wrong". "I will not be played". "This heartbeat is louder than death. Your war drum is not louder than this breath" .
This are the key points that caught my attention in the second poem. "Our holy history baned. Who son should it be. We cherise corpse. we mourne women complicated.I think now that I was never pure. Girl spoiled befor rippen. One women shoots her face. One women belives love will never find her. We mourne each one or we mean nothing at all. Harvest bombs. Smoke redemption. Smoke breathe. If you must fear, fear the unexploded".
They both want the war to and they want people to stop suffering. They want to have freedom. They want to be there own person. They stand up for women. The most important thing they have in common they speak what is on their mind.
What struck me about Persepolis is how can they treat their women like that. How could they let them not have their own life. Let them give their own opinions. Let them be part of the government. How could they think men and women are not equal.
The thing that struck about Suheir Hammad's poetry is that she had so much power in her words that you can't describe how true and powerful her poetry is. I love her powerful words. I love this women she expresses her life freely. Speaks her mind. I just love it.
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