Sharpio's "Auto Wreck": The Theme Of Death
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Few subjects can be discussed with more insightfulness and
curiosity than death. The unpredictability and grimness of it are conveyed
well in Karl Shapiro's poem, "Auto Wreck". The poem starts with a
description of an ambulance rushing to the scene of a crash, and hurriedly
gathering up the victi ....
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.... the reader
think about possible higher meanings. The thoughtsexpressed in the poem
help to suggest these other meanings by clearly stating what is being felt
by the speaker and the crowd around the accident. By stating clearly and
vividly the emotions of the scene, it is easy for the reader to identify
the theme itself, and also to identify with it.
In the first stanza, the speaker describes the ambulance arriving
on the scene more so than the actual scene itself. The ambulance is
describ ....
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Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
