Song Of Napalm Analysis

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In Song of Napalm, Weigl’s story begins as he and his wife are looking out his door at a field as a storm subsides. He imagines that the branches on the trees are barbed wire and the thunder the mortar fire of war. The last image of the poem is of a young girl being burned by the effects of napalm. The speaker attempts to imagine her lifting out into the air, out of the pain, but his imagination fails him and “The lie works only as long as it takes to speak” and he is left with the image “burned behind [his] eyes”(35,
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