Powerful and moving poem Essay

The vulnerability of a region that is vast and until this point as pointed out in worth and name. though time has passed and plentys dark bruise/ has paled, it is a wound that is exposed beneath such bruising. The personification of the smoke highlights the weakness in humans, and then being carried onto the hoidenish itself, yet it is soothed by nature, dabbed at and eased by rain. It is as if the environment is attempting to heal the exposed wound.However the pulmonary tuberculosis of yet use of the word exposing highlights the scale of this devastation it is as though it has been uncovered and peeled suffer- the countrys vulnerability is exposed and it is manifested in destruction and loss. The fact that the smoke has paled highlights that time has passed in which the wound has become clear to onlookers, and this wound is not only literal but metaphorical- the country is injured and was exposed to threat at that precise moment. The image of the half-excoriated Apple Mac is pr esented as a metaphor for the attack that has affected 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 cause great grief across the intended audience, and it will most seeming bring back memories across the listeners. It is also significant that the Apple-Mac is described to have 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 Jones, although it would take one persons knowledge to know that the stock markets that day had crashed. This will also yield how not only did America suffer from the losses, and ruin, but 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 look back upon the attack, per haps in disbelief, shock, horror, and in some aspects we find ourselves awing and this suggested by the reference to the weird prospect / of a passenger plane beading an subroutine 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 overhasty forwards, locked on a collision course. The use of locked creates the impression that such a collision course is indeed inescapable- there is no getting apart from that which is locked, it is immoveable and in this case pre-destined. In the Last stanza Armitage recalls the time when television footage showed helpless victims jumping from the flaming towers.The worlds which thinned to an instant make furious adjoin- 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- highlighting the going of time in which the media framed / moments of grace. Earth and heaven fused. Armitage draws together celestial and earthly beings in the collision of earth and sky, life and death, terror and stop to mere moments. Here the knowledge of the reader is called upon as one recalls the television footage of helpless victims jumping from the flaming towers.From this we determine that Armitage has made this poem with a hide yearn to try and move the reader and intended audience with his strong choice of words. Whilst being simplistic, they are given power by the genre and federal agency they are put into. By Arjun Nazran 10H Page of 2 Show preview only The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of go bad is one of many that can be found in our GCSE Other Poets section.