In Yehuda Amichai’s “The Diameter of the Bomb”, Amichai gives his opinion of war through the lens of someone walking through a war-torn city with bombs dropped on it. The effects of a bombing are described in the poem, both immediate and indirect consequences. The most obvious effect, the sheer destruction of an explosion causing death and displacement. However, what Amichai wants us to also realize is that people are affected by these deaths. Women and Men lose those important to them and children are left parentless. It is important to note that Amichai does not make clear where he is and which country the people in the poem are part of. This indicates that war takes no sides and there are no victors, only victims.
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Your view of the consequences of the war in the poem is fair, and
I agree with you that “there are no victors, only victims” in the war. As we can see, the other side of poetry is sadness, and Yehuda Amichai expresses a true reflection of the reality of war that people lost their lives and lovers in the war. He described the disaster that war has brought to people. At the same time, let us see his aversion to war.