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. …show more content…
The tone in auto wreck is gloom, reflective, and dull.
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
hope.
Analyzing auto wreck wasn’t easy but as Mr. Sorensen explained all the depth of it I cant help but look at other poems and question if they mean more than what they’re saying. In darkling thrush the man is stuck in the in-between he’s lost, and depressed. In auto wreck we are put into the poem and experience all the confusion and sorrow that fills people when accidents happen. Two different poems but both filled with hope. In darkling thrush a new century was starting but the man only saw the end, he needed to hope for something more than that day. In auto wreck people died, people saw, and people felt, but they needed to keep living their lives because when someone dies you cant question everything in your life just keep moving forward.