Example Poetry Analysis, Prepared by Sara Patrick

N AT I O N AL R E C ITAT IO N C ON TE STo r e g o n p o e t r y o u t l o u d g u i d e | 2 0 1 0 | s u p p l e m e n t a l m a t e r i a l sExample Poetry Analysis, Prepared by Sara Patrick1. Copy of poem: Auto Wreck by Karl ShapiroIts quick soft silver bell beating, beating,And down the dark one ruby flarePulsing out red light like an artery,The ambulance at top speed floating downPast beacons and illuminated clocksWings in a heavy curve, dips down,And brakes speed, entering the doors leap open, emptying light;Stretchers are laid out, the mangled liftedAnd stowed into the little the bell, breaking the hush, tolls the ambulance with its terrible cargoRocking, slightly rocking, moves away,As the doors, an afterthought, are are deranged, walking among the copsWho sweep glass and are large and is still making notes under the with a bucket douches ponds of bloodInto the street and hangs lanterns on the wrecks that cling,Empty husks of locusts, to iron throats were tight as tourniquets,Our feet were bound with splints, but now,Like convalescents intimate and gauche,We speak through sickly smiles and warnWith the stubborn saw of common sense,The grim joke and the banal traffic moves around with care,But we remain, touching a woundThat opens to our richest old, the question Who

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