"Cold Coming"

The poem combined the images of war with the ideas of brith and death by being descriptive with how the battles and how war are. The author says words like 'bomb-blasted" and 'charred Iraqi", these words are very descriptive and put images in your head. It goes with birth and death because during war thereis death and bad things happen but in other places there are new babies being born. The author uses the sperm bank and it makes the war look bad like those men will not be coming back so they need to put there sperm in a bank. I think that it is important that the Iraqi is talking to a poet rather then a journalist because a poet can put words into more of a meaning when a journalist is just looking for a story.