Poety blog 1: 1943

        At the beginning of this poem it sounded like it would be about boxing because it talks about a person knocking out someone in the first round and also mentioning heavyweight finals.  It then changes and talks about the war.  I knew this was World War Two because 1943 was when much of the fighting was taking place.  The fourth line of the poem says, "...Dom died in the third wave at Tarawa."  This leads me to believe Dom was an American soldier because Tarawa was an island in the Pacific, where the U.S. were fighting the Japanese.  The poet then goes on to talk about memories back in southern Connecticut.  After reading through a second time makes it sound as if this is a journal kept by a soldier who is overseas fighting a war.  He is thinking of home and  wishing to be back, but knows that he has to continue to suffer through the difficult times and conditions even if survival doesn't seem likely.