The poem “Out Of The Blue” by Simon Armitage on the events of the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. The vibes that I have gotten from the poem have been particularly sinister as I had already known about the terrorist attack in 2000 and the poem used adjectives in a way that gave me a visual perspective of how the victims would have felt at that situation. Specifically the sentence “The heat behind me is searing, searing”. As this gives me, the reader the impression that the fire and heat from the explosion of the plane had been perhaps a driving force behind the decision of jumping off the skyscraper to their death.
The author also utilizes another technique of using many onomatopoeia in which repeat throughout the poem as Simon uses this method to enthusize the point of the danger being overbearing and bewildering towards the victims of the 9/11 bombings.
An example of personification in the poem would be “The heat behind me is bullying, driving” This is a prime example because it is describing the heat as a
The World Trade Center Complex at 110 stories each and 10-million-square feet of office space for about 35,000 people and 430 companies. The author re-imagined what it would have been like for the husbands and wives stuck up there, as a few seconds before the first plane had hit it was almost as like the day would have ended like any over.
Simon Armitage was born on the 26th of May, 1963 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He is a ronound British Poet and translator.
September 2, 2015 at 2:49 pm
I think you’ve used the term homophone when you’re going for onomatopoeia – but it’s very good to see you referring to linguistic features rather than sticking only to the ideas in the poem.
You need more of this: for example when you refer to the effect of the heat, you’ll want to add to this by referring also to the use of personification of the flames. look for this in the poem and see what you can do the add to what you’ve written.
Also it will be important to explore the use of the pronouns ‘me’ and ‘you’ in the poem so you can explain the intimacy that this creates and its impact on the reader.