In this poem the poet used imagery to enable the reader understood the agony the Chilean woman, her husband and their child faced. The arrest, the torture by the prison guards the way they wanted to torture and yet they were forced to see each other’s torture. There is nothing more painful than watching your five years old baby, your wife, your husband get tortured by a merciless guard. And this is what the poem depicted in our mind.
Sometimes it might be true that out of love and respect for one's dignity, or to save a loved one from something worse than death killing someone else could be done. The speaker pointed out what exactly s/he going to do if s/he were in the shoe of the Chilean family. The speaker imagined herself slitting his throat and kill her son and then kill herself in order to save him from being tortured at …show more content…
The speaker said “this new idea enters my life”...”The guard enter my life…” The speaker mentioned his/her being called an ethnic slur “Dago” as a child but It wasn't worse than death. The speaker hinted that the guard when torturing used racial slur to call the five year old boy ”Dago” while his mother watching them. And this is according the speaker something something worse than death. Finally there comes a need to escape from the pain and agony of witnessing the torture of a loved one through “gracious and eternal” death, an old enemy “who permits