Question

The three images that Bly uses in the poem are _____.

blood, sweat, tears
skull moonlight, desk, finger ring
desk, computer, ring
ring, computer, moonlight

Answer 1

The three images that Bly uses in the poem are:

B. skull moonlight, desk, finger-ring

Step-by-step explanation:

Robert Bly, in his poem "Counting Small-Boned Bodies", invites readers to count bodies with him. First, he says that if we could make the bodies smaller, the size of skulls, we could have a whole plain filled with skulls in the moonlight. By making the bodies even smaller, we could fill a desk with bodies. Finally, by making them smaller still, we could keepsake them in a finger-ring. The poem is a critique to the Vietnam War and the disrespectful way in which bodies of enemies killed in battle are counted, the number being released on press every day. It's as if life itself has lost all its importance, as if those people's lives had never existed. They are just statistics to let others know who is winning the war. Only bodies, nothing else.

Answer 2

The three images that Bly uses in the poem are skull moonlight, desk, finger ring. Option B is correct.

Robert Bly is an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His most noted book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), a key text of the mythopoetic men's movement, which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota.