07-29-2023, 06:38 AM
Hey River, I enjoyed this - to my read, it is a purely political poem.
The streets flood often in the rainy season, and the wires are telephone and power lines that evoke industrialization and pollution.
The pharmacy sells poison, nazis walk the streets, and the politicians are rehearsing for the theater.
The slogan can either be read as a forceful command from a strong-man government, or a desperate plea - neither of which is very attractive, and that represents the narrators view of the current state of the Phillipines. Of course, the narrator probably does love the Phillipines, but not because a slogan tells them to, and not because of the current state of the nation.
I know little about the country, its politics and its history, but that was how I interpreted the poem.
The streets flood often in the rainy season, and the wires are telephone and power lines that evoke industrialization and pollution.
The pharmacy sells poison, nazis walk the streets, and the politicians are rehearsing for the theater.
The slogan can either be read as a forceful command from a strong-man government, or a desperate plea - neither of which is very attractive, and that represents the narrators view of the current state of the Phillipines. Of course, the narrator probably does love the Phillipines, but not because a slogan tells them to, and not because of the current state of the nation.
I know little about the country, its politics and its history, but that was how I interpreted the poem.