said hello on the terrace. The colonel told it to shut up, and pushed himself from the table. My friend said to me with his eyes: say nothing. The colonel returned with a sack used to bring groceries home. He spilled many human ears on the table. They were like dried peach halves. There is no other way to say this. He took one

‘The Colonel’ by Carolyn Forché is an important piece that sheds light on the atrocities committed in the late 1970s in El Salvador. Throughout this poem, the speaker details a meeting and dinner she had, along with a friend, at the house of “the colonel.”

The Colonel: Directed by Tim Williams. With Kevin Durand, Brennen Barker, Jaden Bradley, Asher Chamoy. In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, Glen Meadows Prep must face losing the school unless they bring in a tough-as-nails Marine to discipline its rebellious students.

The colonel told it to shut up, and pushed himself from the table. My friend said to me with his eyes: say nothing. The colonel returned with a sack used to bring groceries home.

The Colonel, informal name for anyone with the military rank of colonel, whether actively serving or retired. See also Kentucky colonel.

In 2016,Tim Williams produced a short film, THE COLONEL, a sports/coach drama at the height of the Vietnam War, about a struggling prep school that hopes to alter its misfortunes by hiring a charismatic Marine to unite its rebellious students.

In 1979, tensions between the militant Salvadoran government and a coalition of leftist groups—which sought to address class inequality, among other concerns—resulted in...

Nov 27, 2024 · "The Colonel" is about a display of brute power. Forche is showing us as readers how terrifying a raw and open threat of violence is—but with a twist.

Apr 4, 2023 · Carolyn Forché's "The Colonel" (1981) answers that question and critiques how those in power have often violated human rights while the rest of the world does nothing. Set in El Salvador in 1978, the speaker and her companion are taken aback when the Salvadoran colonel cuts their dinner party short.

“The Colonel” is a single-stanza, free-verse prose poem, meaning that it does not follow a specific structure and eschews common poetic forms such as rhyme and meter. It opens with...