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When I read Diane Thiel’s poem “The Minefield,” I was moved by the situation and felt pity for everyone involved. It is a sad poem, but the harm that is placed upon all the characters reveals the theme that holding on to painful past experiences can be harmful and have long term affects. The poem begins with the sad story of a boy “running with his friend from town to town. / . . . somewhere between Prague and Dresden”(1-2). They decide to take a shortcut through a field where lettuce grew, as neither one of the boys had eaten all day. While they where running through one of the fields the boy who was in the lead “turned his head, looked back once, / and his body was scattered across the field”(8-9). He had been killed by a mine. From there the poem takes a drastic jump into the future where we are introduced to the narrator. The narrator is the son or daughter of the other boy in the mine field story. I’m not sure why, but I felt that the narrator was a boy. The narrator is telling the story of when his father told them about the mine field accident over dinner.
Approximate Word count = 750
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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