Stanza 1
“Live in the East and the West side, Leave out the North and the South” means the poet is looking at the East and the West side of the world. While he pauses looking at the North and South side of the world for a moment. Actually, he tries to look at what is happening around him in this world. The word “Red-eye” in “Red-eye of devil keeps razing” resembles the bad congregation of certain people who live in this world with too much manipulation and seem so happy to see people suffer from what they have done without clemency. “The million of green hungers whose wishes are blown away to the conurbation of evil” describes on no matter how much hopes for better days the victims give towards the war, it seems like the hopes that they wish for will not come true. The most sadist thing if the war still happens from one generation to one generation until the end of time. The victims may be dying because of the oppression that they are going through and all the hopes to have a peaceful life seems demolished. “Green hungers” means the people who seek for peaceful life.
Stanza 2
Overall, this stanza means that the poet reads newspaper in order to know what is happening in the other side of the world. In the newspaper, he can find a lot of sorrowful things such as the helps that are seeked by the war victims (“Full of rising hands”) and the pain that they endure (“Bleedings are breathing and the dropping of tears”). In the line of “While our eyes are like steel. Limbs are sealed” , the word “our” refers to the poet as well as the people on earth. This line means that our eyes can only see everything occurs around us and it seems that our eyes are already get used to see all those things and sometimes we tend to feel that war makes us tired and fed up because it happens almost everywhere and we just cannot do anything to stop it from occurring.
Stanza 3
This stanza generally means that, even we read a lot in the newspaper about the agony of the war victims and we lay our deepest sympathy to them, but our life has to continue on. We seem cannot spend much of our time thinking and sorrowing about other people as we have our on job to work on. We have to leave out all those sad things for a while and continue our normal life.
Stanza 4
“Live in the North and the South side, Leave out the East and the West” means the poet is looking at the East and the West side of the world. While he pauses looking at the East and West side of the world for a moment. That line is contrast to the first stanza. It seems that the poet changes his view on the North and South side of the world where finally he sees all 4 directions of the world which are North, South, East and West. He uses newspaper as a medium for reading and gaining information. As he reads the newspaper, he finds that the war is still happening ( “The evils are still breathing”) and it looks like we would never able stopping it.
Stanza 5
The word “winter” in line 1 means death or hopeless. The word “summer” in line 2 means the hope or life. “Does it dry up like raisin in the sun?” The word “it” in this line means hope. This line generally means to compare hope to a raisin dried in the sun that portrays terrible shrinking from fresh to dry. This line contains of very deep meaning which means something that really has happened and will it happen again?. Overall, this stanza elaborates on the hopes that are wished seem will not come true, unless those wicked people are eliminated from living in this world. Whatever happens around us, the eyes seem have to bear it and get used to see it and swallow all the bitterness in order to continue our life journey.
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