The Car Wreck Poem

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¨Auto Wreck¨ by Karl Shapiro describes the horrific sight, seen by a witness to an accident. The scene is being described to the reader, and being told through the visuals that had been seen. In line 15, it says, ¨We are deranged, walking among cops¨ showing that they just saw something very uneasy, and are not sure what to do about what they had just witnessed. ¨One with a bucket douches ponds of blood¨ (18). The sight was gruesome, and shocking in the streets. Ultimately, the accident was a shocking scene and hard to witness. The speaker uses figurative language and imagery repeatedly to describe the brutality of the car wreck. The first stanza is full of many similes, in line 3, it says, ¨Pulsing out red light like an artery¨, to describe

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