Memories…Starting over again
I actually think in the poem “Eastern War Time” by Adrienne Rich, it isn’t a bunch of different people going through war, but rather one person going through war and how it affects that person’s life. The poem opens up with a little girl reading and do basic things trying to figure herself out. The world is simple at this point. In the middle of the war, while they are hiding in the woods she think back to what it was to go to the woods when she was young and in love. Then at the end, she is thinking back to all memories good and bad.
The poem closes with a woman in her old age in Israel. She is going through all the memories has experienced through war. The poem opens up with someone trying to find themselves and I think that it is the old lady who is trying to find herself. She has all these memories before the war that were ruined because of the war. Now she has to start over again or at least she wants to start over again. She wants to go back to being a little girl when the world was simple. She wants to start again and create new memories because all the old ones are ruined.