1. What were they like?
Who do you think is asking the questions in the poem?
Who do you think is answering the questions?
What do you notice about the style/tone of these answers?
Find examples which show the horrors of war.
Find words which show the quiet dignity of the people.
Find words/phrases that show the Vietnamese were farmers.
Why do you think the phrase “not remembered” is repeated?
What is the effect of the last answer? (Consider the use of echo, reported, moths in the moonlight, silent.)
What is the central idea of the poem?