ENTRY 4：Response to the poem "Photograph from September 11."

  This poem possesses a very strong sense of pictures through single word it has used in this poem. In this poem, the burning floors, face, blood, hair, keys, coins, pockets are very visualized and all the things that are very familiar to us and will arouse our emotions of sympathy and regret for these people trapped in the building desperately struggling for life. This poem is very plain in terms of the words but very touchable as it has described a very real scene to us to imagine, to feel and to think. The poet subtly describes very part that will grab the readers’ attention, which just like a description of a static photograph that catches a very brutal moment. However, it is also dynamic with the poet’s words such as “jump”, “burning floors”, “loose”, “fall”, which just resemble the process of life, flowing and fading away. In the last stanza, the narrator included his own emotion of helplessness and lament for those who unfortunately lost their life and indignation and wrath for those who gave rise to this tragedy.