"Internment" by Juliet S. Kono is about a Japanese-American mother and daughter getting transported during the relocation after Pearl Harbor. The mother describes their long journey from home. Also, she says how after her daughter awakens from falling asleep, although not wanting to, she sees beauty in the dewdrops on the fence. My feeling toward this poem are that I thought it was sad how they were shipped from their homes. I liked this poem though because I thought that it was very interesting how even through these hard times and not wanting to, the child sees beauty in the dewdrops. In this poem, the imagery that comes to my mind is a large group of Japanese-Americans crowded in an Internment camp surrounded by barbed wire. Some poetic devices used in this poem are free verse, because this poem has no rhyme scheme, and alliteration when the author says, "the delousing of DDT. . ." Also, the author uses a simile when she says, "which holds the in like stolid cattle. . ." where she compares the crowd of poeple to stolid cattle using the word "like." Overall, I liked this poem, and I would enjoy reading more work by Juliet S. Kono
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