My thought about the poem
It is a hard time for me two pick a poem to talk about, because I like most of them. Therefore, instead of talking about the one I like the most, I choose the one which is easier for me to understand. As a result of having more things to talk about, I choose "Ducks".
"Ducks" tell us a story about a girl who's nationality is Irag. She has been separate from her families because of the war between Irag and Iran, so she moved to America. There are three ducks in her house where is in countryside and writer use lots of description on what do ducks do and their relationships.
In my opinion, writer shows two things to us which she think we should know. First, we know that people from Middle East is educated and love to study, but not the terrorists and barbaric people which most of Americans think from
"In Iraq a book never had one owner – it had ten.
Lucky books, to be held often
and gently, by so many hands.
Later in American libraries she felt sad
for books no one ever checked out."
This quote tells us that most of people in Middle East love to read and the stereotype which given by social media is wrong. Not all the people in Middle East are violence and estremlists, but most of them are normal people like we are who also love to read. Therefore I think writer wants to telling the truth about her country in a way of poem.
Second, I guess that writer use three ducks to show us the relationship between America, Irag and Iran. America is that female duck, and Irag and Iran are the male ducks. The male ducks which doesn't like by the female duck will be depressed and it is not always the same male duck. That seems to show me that the country which America support will become stronger and give another county a hard time, but America won't support the same country forever. America wants to make a balance between them and keeping the war which won't let one the country be annexed.
As you can see, that is my thought about the poem "Duck".

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