As I grew up my parents used to tell me that everything happens for a reason. Intern, I thought to myself, what about all of the horrible things that happen? I soon realized that even though a bad event may occur it still does happen for a reason. Sometimes the bad events are used to teach a lesson to others. In the poem, Auto Wreck, by Karl Shapiro, Shapiro uses vivid details to display to the reader a disturbing car crash.
In the first stanza, Shapiro portrays the urgency of the situation. In the first line Shapiro states, "It's quick soft silver bells beating, beating"(L1). This statement is especially effective because of the alliteration, " bells beating beating". This brings the reader's attention at first glance. The bells symbolize the siren of an ambulance arriving to the scene of the accident. Later in the first stanza Shapiro states, .
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"Pulsing out like an artery"(L2). This simile parallels the idea of a heart beating. The ambulance is keeping this person alive by keeping their heart beating. Another line that is quite effective is, "The doors leap open, emptying light"(B . Here, Shapiro uses personification when he states that" the doors leap open." When this event occurs it is a sign of safety. The white light tends to bring comfort. In the first stanza Shapiro uses several different literary devices to make the scene of an accident more effective.
In stanzas two and three of Auto Wreck, Shapiro portrays a stiff, lackadaisical atmosphere. For example, in the first line of stanza two he states, "We are deranged, walking among the cops." This shows the depression at the scene. This statement relates to those who have passed on watching the aftermath of the accident as ghosts. Another example, located in stanza three states, "With stubborn saw of common sense, the grim joke and banal resolution the traffic moves with care, But we remain touching a wound"(L26).
In the poem, Auto Wreck, by Karl Shapiro, Shapiro uses vivid details to display to the reader a disturbing car crash. ... In stanzas two and three of Auto Wreck, Shapiro portrays a stiff, lackadaisical atmosphere. ... In conclusion, Karl Shapiro's, Auto Wreck, has a lasting impression on the reader. ...
In the poem "Auto Wreck" by Karl Shapiro, he conveys the unpredictability and grimness of death while probing for a deeper meaning of it within himself as well. ... It is at this point when the shock of the wreck is starting to set in and his mood becomes distinctly pessimistic and fearful. ... "Auto Wreck" deals with death by exposing the reader to the feelings of the author who is a witness to the crash. ...
My first car wreck According to the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 710 persons were killed in various road accidents in Lagos between January and November last year. ... I had never been involved in a car wreck before. ... At the hospital, the man told us that he had just left an auto shop where some mechanics had just given his bike a tune up. He said he was on his way home when he noticed that the bike wasn't running like it should have been so he decided to go right back to the auto shop to make a complaint. ...
Karl Shapiro's poem, "Auto Wreck," deals with the complex subject of death by exposing the reader to the feelings of the bystanders after witnessing a crash. ... He depicts one police officer making notes, one cleaning blood, and one hanging lights on the wrecked sheet metal that was once a recognizable automobile. ... The witnesses, who are not used to viewing such horror, are unable to handle the sight of the auto wreck. ... In this poem, Shapiro has recognized certain reaction patterns of society and pieced them all together, along with the most common societal horror: an auto wreck...
The staff of Auto Week magazine wrote, "At Talladega, usually it's coming off Turn Two, where the track funnels a bit. ... Once again, NASCAR was not designed for spectators just to wait for a huge wreck. ... You run it all day, you"re going to wreck. ... Harrison 5 Bibliography Auto Week Magazine. ... "Out of the Wrecks Emerge a Steal." ...
The poem "Auto Wreck" raises this question that none of us like to think about, but is a very true aspect of life. ... "One hangs lanterns on the wrecks that cling, Empty husks of locusts,, to iron poles". ... This is a very dark "jungle" that has a metal figure in it, that being the auto wreck. ...
In fact, 80 percent of all fatal alcohol-related auto crashes occur between 8:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Sixty-five percent of drivers that kill themselves in single-car wrecks are drunk. One out of every two Americans will be involved in an alcohol-related auto crash in his or her lifetime. 3.5 million traffic accidents' injuries are directly caused by drivers stoned on marijuana or other drug substances. ...
How long would it take someone to eat ninety-four Mc Donald's Cheeseburgers? That is thirty one thousand calories and a little over fifteen and half days worth of food--in other words, one gallon of aliphatic hydrocarbon, more commonly known as gasoline. Around the world millions upon millions ...
In the movie The Driver, there is a heavy focus is on two of the main characters, the driver and the detective. The driver is without a doubt the bad guy and the detective is the cop trying to make the "big bust". The differences are unmistakably there, but the similarities between them are also q...
