Hi everyone,
This one is remarkably straight forward, given the previous poems we've looked into.
By now you will have noted that modern poetry tends to shun rhyming or rhythmic structures. By necessity we find imagery becomes more heavily relied upon, yet meaning is also often communicated by shape and size of stanza.
Mr. Sir has this one pretty much down, so other than our class notes I recommend you have a look at his page.
A final observation has to do with the anthology this poem is placed in, as Cambridge will expect us to have at least working knowledge of authors' concerns and commonly explored themes.
The poem was published in Dharker's "The Terrorist at My Table" in 2006 (one site says 2007). Poetry archive says, when discussing an overview of the author's works, 'The subjective nature of perspective and openness of interpretation are also at the crux of a fourth book, The terrorist at my table (2006), which revels in blurring the public and personal. 'The right word' is perhaps the most successful of these: describing the same scene in repeatedly differing terms, an anonymous man is seen as a terrorist, freedom fighter, guerrilla warrior and martyr, before being cast as "a boy who looks like your son".'
Pick the key words out of that quote, and then re-read the poem. You should have quite a lot to go on.
Enjoy,
- T. Marcus
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