The suffering of the victims of Vietnam war reflected in Robert Bly’s poems

Literature is a literary work in which the words are arranged imaginatively based on human experience. Poetry is a form of literature that many readers hold in a special kind of affectionate admiration. Poetry contains the mixture of experience, feeling, emotion, and thought of the poet.

In this study, the researcher is interested in analyzing Robert Bly’s four poems because of several reasons. The first, Robert Bly’s poems have good dictions that can make the readers more interested in reading and analyzing his poems. The second, those poems have many idiomatic words that have a deep meaning and make the poems more beautiful. And the last reason is that Robert Bly’s poems are talking about the sufferng at Veetnam at that time.

There are some objectives wants to be reached by the researcher in conducting this research. In this study, the writer wants to expose the suffering of the victims of Vietnam War and something related to the Vietnam War such as the actors of this war and the general truth about this war based on Robert Bly’s four poems. The writer wants to know deeply about Vietnam War based on those poems.

In this research, the researcher uses literary criticism with genetic structuralism. The primary data sources of this study is the literary work it self. The literary work that the writer chooses are the poems written by Robert Bly titled Counting Small–Boned Bodies, Driving Through Minnesota During The Hanoi Bombing, Waking From Sleep, and Melancholia by Robert Bly. The secondary data source is the historical background of Vietnam War. The data were collected in many ways. The first, the writer starts getting the poems as primary data of this study and then writes those poems and compiling them in a piece of paper, reading it in order to find out the appropriate data that can support the question of the problems of study, traying to investigate the instrnsic aspects of the poems in order to get the basic meaning of the poems, selecting for the historical background of Vietnam War as the secondary data in the internet and compiles it in a piece of papers. The writer uses several steps in analyzing the data. Those are organizing the data based on the stated problems, classifiying the data in accordance with the statement of the problems, relating the data to the real conditon of in Vietnam when the war took place.

The writer concludes that Vietnamese are sad during the war. The war makes them in a great pain. They get death terror from the soldiers both Vietnam and American soldiers. Vietnam War carries the peaceful in Vietnam away. Vietnam War causes bad impact especially to the Vietnamese. Vietnam War causes heavy losses. There are much death victims during the war. Vietnam War also causes a deep sorrow to Vietnamese. Based on the fact, Robert Bly’s poems really show the suffering of the victims of Vietnam War.