Student poetry comparison

1. How poets use different voices to
present conflict?
By Dollly and Luke

2. Out of the blue
• Armitage uses the point of view of a man experiencing
the attack on the twin tower as it happens, guiding you
through his experiences. It is first person but not
written by the man himself. Although it is written 5
years after the attack it is a very detailed account. It is
an extract and the extract starts from the point of the
plane hitting and the man is shouting for help. He got
his inspiration from a picture taken at the attack. It is
about the man talking about his perspective looking to
the outside world asking for help and saying there has
never been anything like it and eventually gives up.

3. Out of the blue
• His perspective choice is affective as it makes
the reader think about the scale of people
who died in there masses. ‘Does anyone see a
soul worth saving’ backs this up as it says
there are to many people that you will never
save them and no one can be picked to be
saved and he is speaking for the rest of the
people in the building in the quote as soul
relates to SOS (save our souls).

4. Out of the blue
• “I am here still breathing” describes how
when the building is starting to colapse he is
still there but no one is noticing him, as there
is a huge crowd of people desperate to be
saved.
• He then shows he has given up by using the
quotation