What Does I Saw You Walking Mean

The thundering sound of the bomb blast could be heard for miles. Men, women, and children run frantically in order to find shelter, being blinding by the massive amounts of dust that have caused the sky to turn yellow. Mothers are scavenging for their children, who were playing games outside, now stuck deep in the rubble of buildings that have collapsed on top of them. Houses have been destroyed, families have been obliterated and innocent lives have been lost. For many around the world, situations like these have become a part of everyday life. In A Pure, High Note of Anguish, author Barbara Kingsolver describes the confusion and questions that arose after the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11th. 9/11 was the largest terrorist

The tone and mood are both very angry, with a lot of yelling going on, and using words to voice his concern like, “It’s scary” and “we are powerless”. But with every poem there is a deeper meaning. I think the deeper meaning of this poem is warning us where technology will take us. Throughout the poem he is showing examples of how life was before technology and how life is now, so then when you really start thinking about the poem, you have to think of where technology will take us. This is shown in lines 46-47.

The first article, “The Real New York Giants” by Rick Reilly is writing to readers that are worrying about the Giants’ next season. Only being six months after the 9/11 catastrophe, Reilley uses pathos to convey his message. He plays heavily on the reader’s emotions, his entire article about the lost heroes in the collapse of the twin towers with a tone of remorse and melancholy. First, he starts off with establishing the determination of the firemen. “We'll have a team if we only have 10 guys. We're playing,” was a quote from Mike Heffernan who had lost his brother on 9/11. Then he goes into vivid detail, describing the men who “ have a nasty case of the WTC cough” from “ inhaling dust, smoke, glass particles, asbestos and, indeed, microscopic remains of their fallen comrades.” He is referring to the many firemen that had to clean up the 9/11 wreckage, which took a lot longer than a couple of days.

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 title of this poem is “Photograph From September 11”, by Wislawa Szymborska. The literal meaning of the title is that it refers to the photograph from September 11th taken by Richard Drew. The picture is known as the “Falling Man”. Figuratively the title means that the poem in itself is a photograph of September 11th in the way that it is structured and in the way it uses visual imagery to create a mental picture in the reader's mind. When this picture came out people often didn’t want to look at it because they viewed it as disrespectful and intense, and it was taken down almost right away.

Once I was able to associate these words to emotions and issues present in everyday life, the poem started to make me feel sad. I began thinking about all of the emotions and feelings that everyone hides as they go about life. For example, how the waitress I see once a week may have an eating disorder, or how the singer I look up to just lost her son, or the businessman who got laid off today. Everyone has their own personal battle that they carry everywhere, at any given moment. This explains why the setting is so plain, since the internal struggles people face affect them even at a bus stop. While each person waits, the waitress may be thinking about how much skinnier the person next to her is. The singer could be remembering when she held her baby. And the business man could be planning how to break the news to his wife. No matter how small, everyone experiences a type of trauma or bad experience, and this poem seemed to show what happens when these emotions become bottled up. No one can help each other because they are so stuck within their own issues. The difficulty helping others reminded me of the idea of having to take care of yourself before being able to take care of others.

The speaker's life before war is left far below and even feels like an illusion. Like a "dream," it is gone. When the speaker “woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters”, he woke up to his worst nightmare, enemy fighters approaching the bomber. If we take a close look at lines three and four together, there is a stark contrast. Line three is very peaceful and serene, the words “dream”, “life”, and “earth” usually have positive connotations; while line four is certain death, with words like “nightmare” and “black flak”. The last line of the poem is very straightforward, and is almost prose. It tells us exactly what we need to know. When the bomber got back to the base, they cleaned the speakers remains out of the turret with a hose. If we continue the metaphor of the bomber being the mother, we can conclude that the speaker is being born into death through the womb of “the State”.

Just like every Tuesday, Jane got up and ready for work. She got up at her usual time, about six AM, had a cup of coffee before she got her kids up and ready for school. As she’s helping her three year old daughter brush her teeth, Jane’s husband came in and said his final goodbyes to his wife. Sadly, neither Jane nor her husband knew that though. After about 7:45 AM Jane had her kids dropped off at school or preschool and was now on her way to work at The World Trade Center. September 11th use to be just a normal day in September until terrible events happened; these events changed America’s homeland security, started a war, and a memorial in New York.

Many people lost family and friends on September 11, for a very devastating reason. 2,977 lives were lost along with many injuries because of these attacks. The attacks left many in shock, leaving many with fear to move forward after experiencing, witnessing, and hearing about the events that had taken place (September 11). Many lost their parents, their soulmates, and the country lost the people who helped to fight for us on this day. The firefighters, police, and military all risked their lives to help the people in trouble. A text says, “Equally alarming, more than 335,000 people lost their jobs in tourism between 2001 and 2002, according to a case study by Finland’s Centria University of Applied Sciences” (DePietro). This evidence shows that many people from other countries or different parts of the United States that usually visited popular parts, stopped because of the attacks. Many people that experienced the attack had just as bad effects on their lives as the ones that were lost. In the book, “Escape From The Towers” the author, Andra Abramson states, “At 8:46 a.m., Greg Trevor finished a phone call. He stood up to stretch his legs. At that moment, there was a huge crash. American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into Gregs building. The plane hit the North Tower about 20 floors above Greg's office. Greg remembers hearing a loud noise. Then he

In stanza two of the 9/11 poem the author states that " We ran down the flight of stairs the fire men ran up the stairs and shoved us up but we though to flee.

“So many people, she kept saying. So many people. She had the look on her face, of pain that was not her own but for the whole world, that look that most all grown-ups seemed to express in those following days.” What the book “Nine Ten,” written by Nora Baskin was about, a real wake up call for America. Attacks on the two Twin Towers in New York was a terrible tragedy and caused over 2,000 deaths, but this made America more safe for people to live in. All good has to come from events that are upsetting and tragic for something to get better. Memories are helpful.

Poetry Annotation Level III Alan W. Jankowski wrote the poem “We Shall Never Forget,” to honor the emergency rescue providers who died during the crisis. Most people honor the victims who died in the buildings or planes. However, people forget over 400 of the people who died were police officers, firefighters or paramedics. They didn’t die because of fate, they died trying to help others live. Jankowski was driving to a job interview on the morning of 9-11.

The article describes Berne’s first visit to the area surrounding Ground Zero and how at first she saw nothing, but watch this absence turn into something much more powerful: “Ground zero is a great bowl of light, an emptiness that seems weirdly spacious and grand…absence begins to assume a material form, when what is not there becomes visible” While the towers no longer stand, Berne still feels that there is something still there; for her, it is simply the memory of what once stood there. The images that she would see maybe mentally terrifying, but show that spirit and feeling can still exist even in the absence of physical features. When many people feel this way, the effect is clearly powerful: “…it occurred to me that a form of repopulation was taking effect, with so many visitors, all of us coming to see the wide emptiness where so many were lost. And by the act of our visiting – whether we are motivated by curiosity or horror or reverence or grief, or by something confusing that combines them all – that space fills up again”. All of the people that visit the site feel a common experience, despite what their motivation was. Each individual that Berne saw contribute to the overall idea that these events can bring all people together and stand stronger than before. Even though this was months after the attack, the feelings remained the same. A universal respect for those fallen has developed, and that is an essential part of the 9/11 experience for all

While reading a poem a reader can have plenty of different thoughts or may interpret the meaning to the poem differently than others. That being said, it all just depends on your knowledge and the way you view things. Not every person is the same, so not everyone is going to agree on the meanings of poems and there is nothing wrong with that. Therefore, the truth about poems is only the writer really knows the meaning and readers can just guess and make assumptions of what they interpret. After reading Stevens poem, “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock” the beginning seems to be describing a typical dull household that is going to sleep for the night and it puts off a haunted feel because the people are wearing white night gowns that are bland. The second half of the poem talks about how the people in white

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