Assisi critical analysis

             Question: Choose a poem that has something important to say to you by closely referring to the poet's language, briefly explain why you consider the subject matter to be important, and go on to analyse how the writer conveys the importance of the subject. Refer closely to the text and at least to of the following: word choice, imagery, ideas, point of view or other appropriate feature.
             In the poem Assisi written by Norman MacCaig there are many literary techniques which are used to illustrate the theme of the poem. In the poem a beggar sits outside the Church of St Francis in the Italian town of Assisi. The priest and tourists who are being shown Giotto's famous frescoes ignore him. It illustrates to the reader how the poor and needy are ignored by the modern day church and people in general. The poem is mainly concerned with bringing to the readers attention the shallowness and commercialism of the Church plus the hypocrisy and loss of values of the present day Church and, by extension, society as a whole.
             The poem is divided into three verses. Each character has there own verse which draws attention to the fact that very little contact ever takes place between them. The poem starts and ends with the beggar, as he is the character that inspired the poet. In the first verse we are given a description of the Beggar,
             "The dwarf with his hands on backwards
             sat slumped like a half-filled sack
             on tiny twisted legs from which
             Here we can see that the beggar is being described in a shocking and grotesque way. This is vital in emphasising the intensity of the poet's anger at the hypocrisy of the church and its loss of values plus the apathy of his fellow man. The simile, "twisted legs from which sawdust might run" dehumanises the beggar and there appears to be no sympathy in the tone of this description. The man is compared
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