The Casualties by JP Clark
THE CASUALTIES BY JOHN PEPPER CLARK Introduction: John Pepper Clark’s poem The Casualties is about the causes and effects of war. It is said that he wrote this poem as an elegy to Chinua Achebe, inorder to mourn and show respect for the people who lost their lives unfairly during the civil war that took place in Nigeria. The war started when Biafra wanted to leave the Nigerian Federation and become a country of its own. However the situation may be, what Clark says is applicable to every war that had ever took place in history. The effects of war: It is foolish to measure the effects of war in terms of ‘ the number of lives lost. The worst casualty is that people are seized with death wish. This idea is conveyed in ‘ the first stanza itself. The people who get slain in a war are to be envied, not pitied. For, death puts an end to their sufferings. The people-who get wounded in a war are not in any way fortunate. Because they move towards death by painfully in prolonged stage
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