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English, 24.03.2021 07:10, clairajogriggsk

(Choose one of the strong examples of IMAGERY in the poem. Explain the poet’s purpose in choosing those particular words to “paint a picture” in the reader’s mind.) I cannot teach this book. Instead,
I drop copies on their desks,
like bombs on sleeping towns,
and let them read. So do I, again.
The stench rises from the page
and chokes my throat.
The ghosts of burning babies
haunt my eyes.
And that bouncing abaton,
that pointer of Death,
stabs me in the heart
as it sends his mother
to the blackening sky.
Nothing is destroyed
the laws of science say,
only changed.
The millions transformed into
precious smoke ride the wind
to fill our lungs and hearts
with their cries.
No, I cannot teach this book.
I simply want the words
to burn their comfortable souls
and leave them scarred for life.

-Thomas E. Thornton

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