The real name of the poet is S.H Vastayana. This poem is written on a very unfortunate incident of the bombing of Hiroshima by the Allied forces of USA during the second world war on 6th August 1945. In this poem, the poet very skillfully describes what happened on that unfortunate day.

Hiroshima is a modern poem by S. H. Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’. It deals with the humanistic and socialistic leanings of the poet towards the measurable plight of the innocent people of Hiroshima, a city of Japan where the atom bomb was dropped by America.

GCSE Poetry Revision | ‘August 6, 1945’ by Alison Fell. ‘What have we done? ‘ – written by the co-pilot of the Enola Gay in his diary, as he witnessed the mushroom cloud of the atomic bomb spreading over Hiroshima.

“A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” of Vikram Seth is an anti-war poem. We, the readers, are horrified when we go through the poem, thinking about the devastating effect of war on common innocent people. The poem also reflects the poet’s humanity.

Part of John Hersey’s goal in writing Hiroshima was to show that there was no unified political or national response to the bombing of Hiroshima, but that there was one definite effect on the people affected by it: they came together as a community.

I Believe: Structure, Style and Theme The poem is also full of imagery and symbolic expressions, metaphors and alliteration. The Theme: The poem is about the limitless possibility in a man – the things that the poet think or rather believe, we human beings can do, can achieve, can dream of and can aspire for.

These images seem to convey that man’s harnessing of the destructive power of atoms may lead to unknown and unnatural consequences. The narrative conveys the unsettling sense that the creation and use of the atom bomb crosses an important line between the natural and unnatural world.

6. What disease of the blood was becoming common among survivors? Leukemia was becoming common.

Style: The poem is written in Free Verse with no particular rhyme or metre followed in writing the poem.

What is a ‘bliss’ for a poet in the poem? Answer: The poet loves rain because it carries him in old memories. He thinks it is bliss to hear the sound of the rain on the roof.

Theme of Survival. One major theme of the book is survival, both of individuals and of communities. The book describes how people react in crises and what this show of their moral character.