Summary of 'The Gift in Wartime' by Tran MongTu

The Gift in Wartime by Tran MongTu: Summary About The Poem This heart-touching poem "The Gift in Wartime" has been composed by a Vietnamese poet named Tran Mong Tu. This poem has presented the inhuman picture of war. The title of the poem itself is a satire for all those people who give more preference to wars rather than their lives. Here, the speaker as a widow has put forward the painful feelings of her lonely life in this poem after losing her lovable husband in the terrible war between America and Vietnam.  Here, we find her talking to an absent person (husband) relating him about the bad aspects of the inhuman war which has invited a dark future for her. The speaker is seen making her lovable person realize the inhumanity and cruelty of war and even the sorrows of her lonely life after his death. She wants to pass on a serious lesson to all her readers that war never provides happiness to others but only snatches the happiness of others and provides gifts as death, blood,…