This document is a powerpoint presentation submitted by Anu George to Dhanya Kumar for a class at Sree Narayana Training College in Cherthala, Kerala, India. The presentation analyzes the poem "General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle" by Brecht, highlighting how the poem shows that despite machines of war being powerful, in the end it is human thinking and history that hold the real power over time.
7. GENERAL ,YOUR TANK IS A POWERFUL
VEHICLE- in a nutshell.
• Through this poem, Brecht attempts to
highlight the power of man’s thinking ability,
which provides him an upper hand over any
machine or tool made by man himself. The
poem briefs that the war and the weapons are
mere puppets in the hands of history which will
be thrown away into dusty heap, in course of
time and the thinking man will once again own
the throne and crown and reins victoriously in
the annals of history.
8. General, Your Tank is a Powerful Vehicle
It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred
men.
9. General, Your bomber is powerful.
It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant.
