INTERPRETATION OF THIS PART IN HAIYAN DEAD POEM
they once were the youth they once were
the bride with flowers in her hair
red-lipped perfumed women
white-haired father gap-toothed crone
selling peanuts by the church door
the drunk by a street lamp waiting
to his house come by the girl dreaming
they once were the youth they once were
the bride with flowers in her hair
red-lipped perfumed women
white-haired father gap-toothed crone
selling peanuts by the church door
the drunk by a street lamp waiting
to his house come by the girl dreaming
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Haiyan Dead is a poem made by Merlie Alunan, a professor emeritus of the University of the Philippines. It is all about the aftermath experienced and felt by the Filipino survivors when the "Bagyong Yolanda" (internationally known as Typhoon Haiyan) struck the Philippines. It is a common technique for poets to use figures of speech in their poems to give more color and meaning of the content. Figures of speech are words or phrases used in a text with non-literal meaning.