Comparing 'Out Of The Blue And The Right Word'

The Dead of September 11 is deep poem that provokes many feelings and thoughts. There are many topics that are rather easy to delve in to. Throughout this essay, three of these literary techniques will be addressed and “delved into”, so to speak. These techniques are: diction, figurative language and tone. Throughout the following essay several large ideas and the theme of this poem will also be addressed, including but not limited to the universality of the poem and the absolute obliteration of falsities and of false intimacy. Tony Morrison has created a complex, captivating piece of literary art that can be viewed and be interpreted in many different ways, with each individual person who examines it

The two poems: Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage and Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson are both poems which serve as public memorials for disasters that became widespread media events. Both poems also focus on describing the victims who got caught up in the disasters, but the difference lies in the way the disasters are presented. Tennyson elevates the soldiers of the Light Brigade to heroes, glorifying war and patriotism. Armitage, on the other hand, describes the tragedy which lies in the fact that disasters such as ‘9/11’ can end ordinary human lives in the blink of an eye, as well as our inability - as spectators - to process such absurd and tragic events.

Connotation is used in her writing, the word “terrorists” has a negative impact, which is used usually on political implications of violence. She explains how that word instantly paints a picture of Middle Eastern people and changes the way we see and respond to one another. She asks that all terrorists should stop their

They elucidate that terrorism is a “premeditated, politically motivated, violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups of clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience,” (National Institute of Justice).

Wright has a special way of explaining things. When reading this book, a reader need not have a background knowledge on terrorism, Wright crafts the book in such a way that it consists of a ten page list of the main characters, fifty pages of notes, a list of interviews held, a bibliography and a clear bibliography for those who would love research the topic more. He also

“Terrorist is a person, usually a member of a group, who was or advocates terrorism.” Foreign terrorist has been around for decades. In this paper I will be discussing one particular terrorist we all know, Osama Bin Laden.

Millions of people globally supported the ‘war on terror’ at one time, largely because the discourse around it was successful in divisively framing the identities involved and attributing a ‘truthful’ nature to that framing. Governments, with the Bush administration seemingly as the lead, created ‘the other’ to be ‘the terrorist’, and those ‘terrorists’ were probably Muslim or Arab. The fear was then created by the comparison of this ‘other’ to the self; or ‘them vs. us’.

Defining a terrorist has been a controversial issue since the bombing of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Although terrorism has been around since the the 17th century, they share similarities between the act of extremism. Extremist and terrorist both induce fear into

Terrorism is something that is brought up in our modern life as Americans quite regularly, though often not outright. We discuss heightened plane security and about whether it is appropriate to fear those who look different than us who are boarding the same plane. We talk about Apple and if it is worth losing our own personal privacy in order to gain insight on terrorist groups. We add a French flag over our Facebook profile pictures when a country like ourselves faces a reality we silently hope we will never have to face. In Juergensmeyer’s Terror in the Mind of God, the reader is forced to think about terrorism in a way that we are not used to, talking about terrorists as real people, with real motives, who could affect our own lives.

Simon Armitage's poem 'Out of the Blue' is taken his from 2008 anthology of the same name. According to the book's publishers, the poems in the anthology are presented in the form of a respone to three separate conflicts, all of which have changed the world we live in. Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem forms part of the film 'Out Of The Blue' commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after the 9/11 attacks on America. It won the 2006 Royal Television Society Documentary Award. 'We May Allow Ourselves A Brief Period Of Rejoicing' (a quote from one of Churchill's post-war speeches), was also commissioned by Channel 5, and broadcast on

Two poets who skilfully use language features to discuss the violence of mankind and the damaging effects of war are Owen Sheers in Mametz Wood and Simon Armitage in Out of the Blue. A few of these language features are metaphors, plosive alliteration, verbs and oxymoron. These poems are useful for the reader, as it allows them to have an advanced understanding of the impact that war has on an individual during and after the war. The poems are based on real-life events that affected a large part of the population; They are elegiac and respectful to the victims of those historical

Walter Laqueur’s book, “The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction”, is empowering readers with the entire spectrum of terrorism. The reasons behind terrorism are not easy to understand, but Laqueur goes into great detail to try and bring the reader to an understanding of what the terrorist is thinking in order to justify the means to the end.

The terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11th, 2001 is used by Simon Armitage to show the damaging and terrorising effects of mankind on an individual through his poem, Out of the Blue. By skilfully using language features such as direct address, plosive alliteration and adjective, Armitage can demonstrate those effects of war clearly to the reader. Although Mametz Wood and Out of the Blue are set in different years, Armitage and Sheers both show the reader the war is still occurring ‘years afterwards’ and may still occur in the future. “You have picked me out. Through a distant shot of a building burning, you have noticed now that a white cotton shirt is twirling, turning.” A direct address of ‘You’ shows that the persona is feeling frustrated that no one is helping him get to safety. He is also accusing the bystanders, God and the terrorists for putting him in a vulnerable position as he is on the 86th floor and the chances of surviving this is low. With the connection of the end-stop line ‘You have picked me out.’ shows the persona’s anger towards the bystanders as they are just ‘watching a man’ die in the ‘building, burning.’ Armitage wants to let the reader understand the frustration that victims, such as this persona, have when they are put in a defenceless place with helpless civilians below. The adjective ‘white’ when the persona talks about the ‘white cotton shirt twirling, turning,’ lets the reader understand that he was pleading for help by

The history of terrorism can be traced back as far as the French revolution. Some of these acts of terrorism only seem as distant reminders of our past, but at the same time, are not a far cry from today’s brutal acts; and although these acts seem distant, it doesn’t also mean they are no longer in the thoughts of individuals in today’s time.

ich our respondents associate terrorism with acting purposively for a broader political agenda.” This article reflects research done to figure out how citizens classify terrorism.