1. The purpose of this poem is about a fire truck arriving at the site of the fire and how the narrator of the poem(victim of the fire) copes with the disturbance the fire truck causes in the community to save him.
2. The poem is considered good poetry because it has a good purpose, and uses a variety of rhetorical devices, which makes poetry good. "Beautiful, heavy, unweary, loud obvious, thing!/ I stand here purged of nuance, my mind a blank." are one of the points that support the thesis because it talks about how the speaker deals with the presence of the fire truck in a good and bad manner. The noise that the fire truck makes disturbs the narrator, but the fact that he is being saved makes him say "beautiful" at the beginning of the paragraph.
Rhetorical devices are used throughout the whole poem. "Right down the shocked street with a siren blast/", shocked street is personification because "street" is being given a verb that applies to living things "shocked". "shocked street" is also an example of alliteration because the two words start with the same letter.
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Is the narrator being saved? Isn't he just a bystander? Be careful not to create a story that isn't there. Good use of text. You're starting to identify devices -- very good! For purpose, ask yourself, "What is the outcome of the disturbance for the narrator?"
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