All Things Not Considered - The Thesis, First Exploratory Draft and Notes

Notes on All things Not Considered

Category for the poem: Narrative

Point of view: Third person

Repetition: holy

Setting: Palestine, Middle East

Tone: Sadness, Angry

Thesis: The narrator describes the humanity issue by using the historical events.

Nur Amira’s First Exploratory Draft and Notes

In the poem All Things Not Considered by Naomi Shihab Nye, the poet describes the humanity issue by using historical events. Firstly, the brutality of killing the helpless children in Palestine as their room is exploded shows the suffering of Palestinians when their land is invaded. Based on the names such as Asel Asleh and Mohammad al-Durra as the evidence, the poet can easily conveys the message about the conflicts in Palestine.

The repetition of word “holy” in this poem shows the cause that leads to the conflict in Palestine. On the name of religion, people become enemies and it is always right to do anything toward others even though it means to kill. 

Other than that, the poet expresses her anger and sadness as her tone in this poem. When a father said “I spit in the face of this ugly world” as he burying his 4 month girl, he is angry toward the world because there is no one who really cares for their situation and help them to fight against the injustice. It also shows people who are silent and act only as the spectators when the poet describes “Jewish and Arab women standing silently together”.