Capital Punishment and Sensitive Societal Issue

penalization penalisation, Witness, and dehumanization are common in the world today illustrated in poems such as, penalty by Seamus Heaney and jacket penalty by Sherman Alexie. The poems upset the world a different perspectives based on the authors viewpoint, yet two authors seem to favor penalty. Therefore e genuinelyone in their life deserves to be punish based on the authors work or even a viewer for one discernment or another to chat for something they have do or witness. These authors wanted to show a strong feeling towards punishment whether or not the crime was minor or major.In Punishment the verbaliser was a witness to dehumanizing punishment of the bog women. In working capital Punishment the cook was a witness to a cruel punishment. stock-still though two authors focused on different types of punishment they both expressed how witnes transgressiong and dehumanization have a vital role in different situations. Can punishment and race have factors that can qualify one another? Can the ethnicity of a immoral effect the harshness of the punishment bestowed upon them? The ethnicity of a savage or witness can mould how cruel and usual a punishment can be towards the abominable or witness.Witnessing is seeing an event, crime, or even an accident take place. In the poem the author talks ab turn out witnessing a horrible event. Punishment begins with a person possible the speaker or even the poet abatement with a cotton gin around her neck and seems to be dead. The speaker seems manage he could have witness the entire death. He describes the bog charr as, she was a barked sapling that is dug out oak- bone, brain firkin her shaved head standardized a stubble of black corn, her blindfold a soiled bandage, her noose a ring to store the memories of love (Heaney, 1157).Even though he describes her as a scapegoat why does the speaker not speak up for this cruel dehumanizing punishment. The punishment was so outrages that the audience fel t her pain. However, the speaker first says my poor scapegoat (Heaney, 1157), and we feel as if he feels the herb of grace the readers do, shortly after he says, I almost love you (Heaney, 1157). With his association of the punishment it leaves the audience believing that the woman deserves the punishment because of her past. dandy Punishment is told in first person, a cook is preparing a last repast for an Indian man.He says I sit here in the aphotic kitchen when they do it, meaning when they kill him, kill and add another definition of the word to dictionary (Alexie, 1164). The pains I am not a witness is repeated throughout the poem, it is said after Alexie addresses a splendid societal issue. Topics such as capital punishment are very difficult for the cook to explain. The speaker of the poem is sympathetic with the condemned man and knows that the reason he is on death row is due to the color of his skin. after(prenominal) the vote counter describes and tells the reader what he is thinking and observing, he uses a mental strain saying, I am not a witness symbolizing that the narrator can only imagine but relate to what the Native American is going through. He changes from I am not a witness to I am a witness (Alexie, 1162) when the narrator tells the reader a story about how the society can hang two volume but throw both people in one grave. The line symbolizes that two wrongs do not equal one right. The cook sympathies with the criminal because he knows that his punishment is only that sever because of his ethnicity. I am a witness is Alexies way of saying this type of punishment is happening and is something that cannot be ignored or oerlooked. The author asks the question, who are we to judge? Who decides someones life is over? Alexie says at the end of the poem, If any of us stood for days on head of a barren hill during an electrical storm then lightning would lastly strike us and wed have no idea for which of our sins were reduced to hea dlines and ash. (Alexie 1165). Alexie was move to say no matter what, a sin is a sin, the term in which the sins were committed are meaningless, and the bottom line is that a sin was committed.However, if we were killed for our actions how would we know if the condemned would make up for that sin or turn out for the worst? Both poems prove that the authors point of view of each punishment in the poem shows significance in the writers everyday life. Seamus Heaneys Punishment shows sultry love and can somewhat symbolize the relationship of the love of his life. Sherman Alexies Capital Punishment symbolizes the punishment people experience especially through racial discrimination. In addition, by Alexie being Native American too, that proves he was reservation a statement about bitter punishment towards his culture.The ethnicity of a criminal or witness can determine how cruel and usual a punishment can be towards the criminal or witness. Work Cited Alexie, Sherman. Capital Punish ment. Making Literature Matter An Anthology for Readers and Writers. By John Schilb and John Clifford. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martins, 2000. N. page. Print. Heaney, Seamus. Punishment. Making Literature Matter An Anthology for Readers and Writers. By John Schilb and John Clifford. capital of Massachusetts Bedford/St. Martins, 2000. 1156-157. Print.