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Mood Of The Poem Auto Wreck

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I chose to speak about auto wreck; because I found I liked it better it was also less eerie than “darkling rush”. In auto wreck we are put into the poem as the reader, we have become a character pretty much. He gets us to feel what the people around the scene feel, but we never do experience the accident itself. That to me is the best part about this poem; Shapiro had the ability to make us feel something so great without physically experiencing it. This poems and mood is suspenseful yet full of sorrow.

The setting in this poem is at the scene of the accident, there are ambulances spectators, yet we never hear about the collision itself. This poem is about us the one watching the ones who start to feel sorrow and sadness for the people in the crash. We question death and wonder if it coming for us next. They question all the sicknesses that are out there and when they will affect them or us, since basically we are the by passers in this poem.
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We get a sense of misery but we never get that from the people who physically experienced the accident we get it as observers walking past. The mood is full of sorrow and distress we are standing or sitting in our cars watching these bodies be taken away by an ambulance, dead bodies. We see and hear but everything goes back to normal. Everything around us keeps moving even though someone just died. What is that telling us? When were gone will we just be another body in a bag?

The irony in this poem to me was probably my favorite part because of the cruelness, but it was true. “Grim Joke” what’s to joke about when someone just died? People joke when in awkward or even serious situations to lighten the mood jokes were mad to avoid the truth of it all. “we speak through sickly smiles” that one line got me I'm not sure if it meant we were distraught but smiled to hide the fear, or if he was saying that we smile as a sign of


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