Month: May 2015

Out of the blue reflection

This poem is written in first person from the perspective of a man that is in a burning building in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the twin towers. In the quote “you have picked me out” the speaker directly speaks to someone that is at a distance through the second person pronoun ‘you’. He starts the poem in second person because he wants the person to help him. This shows he is desperate because he starts of with a pronoun and that shows how desperate he it to get saved.

This poem is about a hawk that thinks he is the best, he is arrogant and thinks he is the most powerful. He is hunting for its prey and he is looking down at everything from a high tree. This is what makes him think he is powerful. The purpose of the poem is to compare how mankind is similar to the hawk because humans also act like this and think they are the most powerful.

The hawk thinks it is the most powerful because it is looking down on everything and everyone and it’s about to attack its prey. This is similar to what humans do.

There are six stanzas in the whole poem and each stanza has four lines. I think this is trying to show how the hawk is and how it speaks.