In the poem "counting small-boned bodies" by robert bly, the speaker is

The speaker of Robert Bly's "Counting Small-boned Bodies" is addressing the lost lives of those killed in the war, as a satire on the government's casual attitude to the dead.

Explanation:

"Counting Small-boned Bodies" by Robert Bly is a poem of just ten lines written in free verse. The speaker starts with the line "Let's count the bodies over again", urging the readers to remember the deceased. The whole poem is a satire of the government's casual approach or attitude to those killed in the Vietnam war. The government had released the death count almost everyday, making it seem as if dying is nothing serious. He's proposing that if only the bodies were smaller, then it'll be possible to "make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight", or get "a whole year's kill in front of us on a desk" or even "fit a body into a finger-ring for a keepsake forever".

in ray bradbury's short story "a sound of thunder", mr. eckels's fearfulness leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.

in the story, mr. eckels, who is a hunter, hires a time travel company to travel to the age of dinosaurs. although he is excited for the hunting expedition at the beginning, when they reach there and mr. eckels sees the tyrannosaurus, he feels frightened. as he is afraid of the tyrannosaurus, he steps off the path although he has been warned not to do it. by stepping off the path, the entire course of the future is affected: mr. eckart alters the future by stepping on a butterfly, which causes a new man to be elected president in the future. in that way, it is mr. eckart's fearfulness what triggers 'the butterfly effect' and what leads to drastic consequences for the rest of the world.