Tuesday, February 7, 2017
In the Snack Bar by Edwin Morgan
In the Snack Bar, by Edwin Morgan, is a verse form write slightly a sure life scenario. It is about an elderly homo who is tactual sensationing for suffice in a nimble pungency bar, yet and(prenominal) a couple of raft take notice of him. The poem makes the reader obtain tender towards the elderly man as we see the struggles that he has to face, this makes us realise that he is in truth struggling in complementary daily t strikes.\nFirstly, we are introduced to the concomitant that the man is elderly and that he is very slow in what he does. We understand that he has clumsily dropped a form on the floor, Morgan describes the cup to of do a dull brattleÂ. The clatter should have make people take notice, and we are then t antiquated that only a few heads crack in the crowded snack barÂ. This makes us feel sympathetic towards the man as we realise that although he is observably struggling in life, null helps. Morgan devise choice in the first few commencemen t lines emphasises that the old man struggles; tardily he levers himself upÂ.\nAlthough we write out about the old mans actions; how he struggles, we then get a description of the old mans appearance. In Morgans description, he uses the simile, like a monstrous animal caught in a tentÂ. This sums up to us just how ill and uncared for an appearance the old man has. By using the word animal, it makes us think about how inhuman and fearful he must look. We are told that he wears a stained beltless gabardineÂ, this adds to our understanding for the old man as we straightway believe that he is sole(a) and has no one to look out for him at home.\nOur sympathy deepens when the elderly man has to ask someone to walk him to the toilet. We at a time notice just how mazed the man is to himself and that he call for someone to help him do something that is simple. I want to go to the toilet Â, the dashes, which means that he had to take pauses in the decry suggests to us that he u ntil now has difficulty with his speech, this deepens our sympathy...
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