As I read it again and again and really try to get what the essence of the whole poem is all about, one thing for sure is the potrayal of the humanity being dissolved in our self. There's no more sympathies and empathies amongst human that corroded the humanity values. I want to highlighted one of her quotes that she said, “Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth." As you read or go through her works and biography, you know what kind of life she been through. As for her, she felt really grateful considering others families and peoples that are very unlucky when it comes to the issues of humanity that hidden or trapped by what people so so called the issues of religion and war. In this poem, you started to process your memory in order to reminisce who is Asel Asleh and who is Muhammad Al- Durrah that Nye had mentioned in the poem. What the significant of the persona and the bitter incident behind the name.There you started to get what the poem is really about. As for me, I was drawn into the issues that been in this world like forever. Its about Palestinian-Israeli sentiment which makes the country into riot. The Jews and Muslims believer are known as enemies since forever. However, is it because of the religion that caused fueled and violent? Is it because differences of ideologies in faith? Is it worth it to fight in war, to die for it, is it only one sided positon that hurt, feel the pain,hatred and the other side feel happy, self fullfilled and please or vice versa? In the end, it just becomes the pain of conflict.For me it is not about religion or God that created all this mess and cruelty but instead is ourself that causes the conflicts and the pain. I do agree that there are distortions in religions in the modern world but however,I rather believe it is the culture of the people. No religion can be pinned for war, rather only a particular group of individuals.At the end, you know it about "humanity" that these modern people try to hide behind "it" when it is clearly there is something hidden agendas or sinister by self proclaimed "human" when the behaviour far from it.And that's how I interpret the poem by Naomi Shihab Nye, "All Things Not Considered".
By : Atan Brown Coffee
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