How does the poet bear witness to tragedy or more difficult aspects of human life? E.g. in Amichai’s case, the most obvious example is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; in Walcott’s, it’s the long aftermath of imperialism, colonialism, and racism on the Caribbean.
In the poem The Diameter of the Bomb, author Yehuda Amichai talks about the effect of war. Amichai started off the poem talking about a bomb. By saying how the diameter of the bomb and the effective range is thirty centimeters and seven meters respectively, Amichai is indicating that war provides a long term effect to humans . He then talks about the effect of war,”with four dead and eleven wounded,” indicating that many lives were lost and affected during this tragedy. Amichai included a tragic event of a young woman who died in her own city which implies that not only one place is affected by the war but many places. Towards the end of the poem, Amichai talks about orphans and God. Orphans are crying because their parents are probably one of the many death occurred during the war. God is notified of this tragic event but failed to do anything about it.