Explore the ways in which Simon Armitage presents the experience of the speaker in the poem, "Out, of the Blue"

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Explore the ways in which Simon Armitage presents the experience of the speaker in the poem, "Out of the Blue"The writer Simon Armitage presents the speaker and his emotions in a depressing manner. The techniques that are used in the poem will be, personification, repetition, idioms and more. The poem is written in the 1st person to give the effect of intimacy and personal experience which the reader would not feel if the poem was in the 3rd person.The extract is called "Out of the Blue", which is an idiom and it has a literal meaning and a metaphorical meaning. The literal meaning is that there were literally planes that had come out of the blue sky, also metaphorically speaking, it was taken by surprise, and nobody was expecting such a horrible disaster to occur.The speaker is
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in a very high position in the crashing building. We can tell this by them mentioning that they are in the "small clouds, but waving, waving. By mentioning the clouds, we get an image of the height of where he is and of the smoke in the burned down building. The writer uses repetition in the phrase above. He uses this technique many times and the repetition of these verbs slows the pace of the poem and echoes the sense of falling through the air. This gives a mournful atmosphere. The present tense verb endings in "ing" such as "waving""bullying""driving""leaving", ...

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