Question

Small Pain In My Chest is an anti war poem justify it by giving illustrations  or your opinon

Answer 1

Small pain in my chest by Michael Mack was read by 5000 people, at the funeral of the first Black Hawk helicopter pilot, who was shot down in Iraq. It is also read at the Vietnam Veterans meetings. The poem shows the pain suffered by the soldiers in a war. It also portrays the human spirits in time of war and crisis. War has lasting at deep effect on those war who severe in the war. This is the theme of the poem in which the poet has clearly brought out the physical, mental and the psychological agony that the soldiers go through in the battlefield. The soldiers in this poem feel ashamed that what his mother and wife would think of him to know that he gave up just because of 'a small pain in the chest.'