Powerful and moving poem Essay

The vulnerability of a boorish that is vast and until this point as pointed expose in worth and divulge. Though measure has passed and smokes dark bruise/ has paled, it is a anguish that is overt beneath such bruising. The personification of the smoke highlights the weakness in humans, and consequently being carried onto the country itself, yet it is soothed by nature, dabbed at and eased by rain. It is as if the environment is attempting to heal the expose wound. barely the use of yet use of the contrive exposing highlights the scale of this devastation it is as though it has been uncovered and peeled back- the countrys vulnerability is exposed and it is manifested in destruction and loss. The fact that the smoke has paled highlights that eon has passed in which the wound has become clear to onlookers, and this wound is not only literal hardly metaphorical- the country is injured and was exposed to threat at that precise moment. The cooking stove of the half-excoriated Ap ple Mac is presented as a metaphor for the attack that has moved(p) the big apple.The Apple-Mac is half excoriated- flayed, stripped of its skin, much like the country itself. The word excoriated is almost onomatopoeic as it mimics the stripped flesh (which is associated with great pain). This would practise great grief across the intended audience, and it volition most promising bring back memories across the listeners. It is also significant that the Apple-Mac is described to work been half excoriated- flayed, stripped of its skin, which is a similarity at this point of time as the country itself America.The fact that the computer still quotes Dow J ones, although it would take one persons knowledge to know that the stock markets that day had crashed. This will also show how not only did America suffer from the losses, and ruin, alone they did financially. The use of hindsight and retrospect in the sixth and seventh stanzas is indicative of the time that has passed to now lo ok back upon the attack, perhaps in disbelief, shock, horror, and in approximately aspects we find ourselves awing and this suggested by the reference to the weird prospect / of a passenger plane beading an office block.The force is a nameless enemy, it does not have shape or form or identifying features and this reinforces its threat and perhaps its inevitability moving headlong forwards, locked on a clash course. The use of locked creates the impression that such a collision course is indeed inescapable- there is no getting away from that which is locked, it is stabile and in this case pre-destined. In the Last stanza Armitage recalls the time when television footage showed bewildered victims jumping from the flaming towers.The worlds which thinned to an instant make furious penetrate- this implies a fusion of anger and great energy, the fury spelling out wrath and pain. . This moment of time is explored by Armitage in the final stanza during which- foreground the passage of time in which the media framed/ moments of grace. Earth and nirvana fused. Armitage draws together celestial and earthly beings in the collision of earth and sky, life-time and death, terror and peace to mere moments. Here the knowledge of the endorser is called upon as one recalls the television footage of helpless victims jumping from the flaming towers.From this we determine that Armitage has make this poem with a hidden yearn to try and move the reader and intended audience with his strong choice of words. Whilst being simplistic, they are attached power by the genre and situation they are put into. By Arjun Nazran 10H Page of 2 Show trailer only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of legion(predicate) that can be found in our GCSE Other Poets section.