critical appreciation of A Doctor's Journal Entry For August 6,1945
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Vikram Seth’s “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” is a brilliant poem that describes the horrors in the aftermath of an atomic bomb explosion. This tragic poem begins rather ironically in a “calm, beautiful and warm” morning, but goes on to depict the frightful condition of the survivors of the atomic explosion by the United States of America on Hiroshima (Japan) during the end of the World War II on 6th August 1945.
“A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” of Vikram Seth is an anti-war poem. We, the readers, are horrified when we go through the poem, thinking about the devastating effect of war on common innocent people. The poem also reflects the poet’s humanity. He sympathizes with the war victims, and makes everyone think again over the disaster that war may cause. And this poem reminds us of some similar great war poems of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
The poem, A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945, is narrated by a doctor, as told in the title of the poem itself. And he narrates everything from his perspective. And, in the course of the poem, he is speaking with his wife, giving her some hope and assurance, and sometimes instructing her. But the doctor’s wife says nothing in the entire poem. So the poem “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” may be called a dramatic monologue.