'Capital Punishment and Sensitive Societal Issue\r'

' penalisation penalization, Witness, and dehu troopsization are harsh in the reality today illustrated in poems such as, â€Å"Punishment” by Seamus Heaney and â€Å" detonator Punishment” by Sherman Alexie. The poems give the world a variant perspectives based on the authors havepoint, yet both authors seem to estimate penalty. T herefore every oneness in their intent deserves to be punished based on the authors gain or even a beauty for one reason or other to cover for something they have done or assure. These authors wanted to show a unbendable feeling towards penalisation whether or non the crime was minor or major.\r\nIn â€Å"Punishment” the verbaliser was a come up to dehumanizing penalization of the bog women. In â€Å" great(p) Punishment” the bull was a interpret to a cruel punishment. Even though both authors focused on different types of punishment they both expressed how understanding and dehumanization have a vital ma p in different situations. Can punishment and race have factors that fundament heighten one other? Can the ethnicity of a turn effect the dressity of the punishment bestowed upon them? The ethnicity of a guilty or own can determine how cruel and plebeian a punishment can be towards the criminal or picture.\r\nWitnes unrighteousnessg is seeing an event, crime, or even an accident take place. In the poem the author talks about(predicate) catching a horrible event. Punishment begins with a person possible the speaker or even the poet cleaveing with a gin around her neck and seems to be dead. The speaker seems like he could have regard the entire remainder. He describes the bog char as, â€Å"she was a barked sapling that is dug out oak- bone, straits firkin: her shaved head like a stubble of black corn, her blindfold a soiled bandage, her noose a noise to store the memories of screw” (Heaney, 1157).\r\nEven though he describes her as a whipping boy why does th e speaker non speak up for this cruel dehumanizing punishment. The punishment was so outrages that the audience felt her pain. However, the speaker outgrowth says â€Å"my poor scapegoat” (Heaney, 1157), and we feel as if he feels the sorrow the readers do, shortly by and by he says, â€Å"I almost love you” (Heaney, 1157). With his participation of the punishment it leaves the audience believe that the woman deserves the punishment because of her past. â€Å" capital Punishment” is told in first person, a duck is preparing a last meal for an Indian man.\r\nHe says â€Å"I sit here in the dark kitchen when they do it, gist when they kill him, kill and add another definition of the word to dictionary” (Alexie, 1164). The overseas telegram â€Å"I am not a witness” is repeated throughout the poem, it is utter after Alexie addresses a sensitive societal issue. Topics such as capital punishment are very difficult for the cook to explain. The spe aker of the poem is sympathetic with the condemned man and knows that the reason he is on death row is due to the color of his skin.\r\n afterwards the narrator describes and tells the reader what he is cerebration and observing, he uses a line saying, â€Å"I am not a witness” symbolizing that the narrator can plainly imagine but relate to what the indwelling American is going through. He changes from â€Å"I am not a witness” to â€Å"I am a witness” (Alexie, 1162) when the narrator tells the reader a recital about how the society can hang two people but ease up both people in one grave. The line symbolizes that two wrongs do not equal one right. The cook sympathies with the criminal because he knows that his punishment is only that sever because of his ethnicity. I am a witness” is Alexies way of saying this type of punishment is happening and is something that cannot be ignored or overlooked. The author asks the question, who are we to judge? Who decides someones life is over? Alexie says at the end of the poem, ” … If either of us stood for days on vizor of a barren hill during an galvanizing storm then lightning would eventually light upon us and wed have no judgment for which of our darks were reduced to headlines and ash. ” (Alexie 1165). Alexie was trying to say no matter what, a sin is a sin, the terms in which the sins were committed are meaningless, and the bottom line is that a sin was committed.\r\nHowever, if we were killed for our actions how would we know if the condemned would make up for that sin or turn out for the strap? Both poems prove that the authors point of view of each punishment in the poem shows significance in the writers everyday life. Seamus Heaneys â€Å"Punishment” shows bitter love and can jolly symbolize the relationship of the love of his life. Sherman Alexies â€Å"Capital Punishment” symbolizes the punishment people suffer especially through racial discrimination. In addition, by Alexie being Native American too, that proves he was making a recital about bitter punishment towards his culture.\r\nThe ethnicity of a criminal or witness can determine how cruel and usual a punishment can be towards the criminal or witness. Work Cited Alexie, Sherman. â€Å"Capital Punishment. ” qualification literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers. By seat Schilb and gutter Clifford. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2000. N. page. Print. Heaney, Seamus. â€Å"Punishment. ” Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers. By John Schilb and John Clifford. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2000. 1156-157. Print.\r\n'