How poets use different voices to present conflict?

By Dollly and Luke

Out of the blue

• Armitage uses the point of view of a man experiencing the attack on the twin tower as it happens, guiding you through his experiences. It is first person but not written by the man himself. Although it is written 5 years after the attack it is a very detailed account. It is an extract and the extract starts from the point of the plane hitting and the man is shouting for help. He got his inspiration from a picture taken at the attack. It is about the man talking about his perspective looking to the outside world asking for help and saying there has never been anything like it and eventually gives up.

Out of the blue

• His perspective choice is affective as it makes the reader think about the scale of people who died in there masses. ‘Does anyone see a soul worth saving’ backs this up as it says there are to many people that you will never save them and no one can be picked to be saved and he is speaking for the rest of the people in the building in the quote as soul relates to SOS (save our souls).

Out of the blue

• “I am here still breathing” describes how when the building is starting to colapse he is still there but no one is noticing him, as there is a huge crowd of people desperate to be saved.

• He then shows he has given up by using the quotation