Tocqueville Part 2

Today, I'm going to look into the long poem "Tocqueville" from Tocqueville. This poem is split up between different sections, all interacting to form the long poem. At first, I did not believe that it was interconnected, though with other parts it seemed like they were. In the end, I decided to go with the possibility that they were parts of a conversation. By this, I mean that the sections within it were parts of different conversations that one might here some place (if it was filled with politically involved people, who were in war). That makes it strong, but also confusing at the same time.

I will talk about two parts that I believed were connected as part of this conversation. The first time that we see this story, it starts on page 29 with the leading sentence of "They found me in the house with my baby child." Within this particular part of the story, we know that the mom is dead and that the men there want the narrator to murder their child. The second part appears on page 31, with the middle section. It continues this particular story of the narrator making their way into a refugee camp.  The narrator was running from something in particular, war probably given the context of the overall book. With war rumbling through the country, people want out, and they will try to get away. The last time we see it is on page 40, with the line starting with "Since I killed my child...", and it is the ending of this particular part of the conversation.

In all, though, since these three sections provide a sense of interconnection within the larger poem as a whole, Mattawa (the author), does not stray away from the highly political book. It gives a different sense of what happens even if the media plays it up like nothing is really going on. One would have to think deeper than what is written on the page. Does it make sense to not see interconnections? Would I write something differently? These two questions can help fuel a way into understanding what the author is trying to say.