"America did not foresee
Green, pink, purple and other colors death potpourri!
Expecting others to pay a high price.
Now thinking twice?
Toll on the innocent and unborn.
Omnipotent and disregarding who will mourn.
Reflective about all the illness, birth defects and prematurely dead.
All the deceit continues to spread!
Nefariously America was led astray -
Generations untold WILL pay -
Execrable effects of agent orange spray!"
In Rainbow death, the writer takes upon the point of view of one that truly hates and criticises the wars. He starts of the poem with the title "Rainbow death" which shows a hint of irony as rainbow is supposed to be beautiful and magnificent; however in this case it is used as an irony to say that soldiers dying in wars are very honourable and beautiful. However this is not true at all and later on in the poem Hubert mentions about his hatred towards war. He says "America did not foresee" which links us to the fact that some Americans at that time were ignorant about the cruelties of world and how it costs millions of life. I assume that this poem is written to condemn the Vietnam world and Hubert wanted those that had never taken part in a world to learn about the evils of war and the horrors that modern technology can bring, “Execrable effects of agent orange spray”. Another line in the poem" Green, pink, purple and other colours death potpourri" shows that the rainbow symbolises war. This is because people tend to see the bright side of the war, the glory and patriotism. However there are still parts of the rainbow which contains something the people did not see, the death and cruelty of war. Death potpourri means a combination of things that are not in agreement with principles. At last few lines of stanza 2,"astray","pay" and "spray" rhymes very well and have negative meanings of threaten and desperation. I feel that this is a very interesting poem as it makes use of good imagery and help convey the message that war is bad.
Sources:http://www.voicesnet.org/displayonepoem.aspx?poemid=168061
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/2010warpoetry.html
