The Lorca Variations, Entitled "In a Time of War"

The title of Rothenberg's poem "In a Time of War" seems to encapsulate the poem's subject-matter, written with uncomplicated words of the English vocabulary makes the poem stand out in a stark manner. This method is used by Rothenberg to illustrate to readers exactly how he sees war, as it is.
One outstanding feature of this poem is its structure. Rothenberg appears to want to isolate the first stanza from the rest of the poem. …