Before you read any of these, please remember that I AM MAKING THESE UP ON THE SPOT. I don't have an answer booklet. Provided I explain myself, though, I'll get marks for them - exactly the same as you.
Eg...
1. Alliteration has been used here as the words in question are particularly important to the meaning of the poem. By drawing attention to these words, the poet is showing us that the 'nuts, bolts, nails, and car keys' are all combining in order to add to the hail of weaponry that is falling on the civilians. The fact that the poet uses lots of 's' sounds also paints an image in our heads of falling debris and shattering objects to make the reader feel like they are there.
2. The poet uses a lexical filed which makes the reader feel on edge. The use of words like 'rapid', 'stop' 'escape' all link together to form an image of somebody being trapped in a fast paced environment, fearing for their lives. This makes the reader feel uneasy as they are empathising with the speaker in the poem.
The structure of the poem is highly unusual as it contains long lines followed by very short lines, for example,
'I was trying to complete a sentence in my head but it kept
stuttering'
3. The fact that it does this throughout the poem makes the poem look spiky and uneven. The effect of this on the reader is that the poem actually looks uncomfortable and untidy. This reflects the uncomfortable theme of the poem: a terrorist bomb going off. It could also be argued that this has been done to isolate some of the more important words in the poem. For example, the word 'stuttering' is left on a line on its own to show that the politics of Northern Ireland are not running smoothly.
4. Rhetorical questions are used repeatedly in the poem to involve the reader more and make the situation seem more real. The questions are all very basic questions that we would expect any person to know the answer to, 'Where am I going?' 'What is my name?' The fact that the speaker can not think of the answers to these simple questions makes the reader question how much the speaker has been affected mentally by this explosion and the situation surrounding it. It could also be that the speaker is questioning these things because he has no faith in anything anymore.
I really hope you see what I'm doing here everyone - not showing off, just making guesses!
If you can make a point, and back it up, you will get marks. I promise!
NW
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