Assisi

Critical Evaluation-Assisi A poem that I live been perusing recently is Assisi by Norman McCaig, which I found rattling interesting to read because it made a statement which relates to our cosmos today even though the poem was wrote about 30 or forty years ago. The poem has lots of ideas including utile figures of speech, good choice of words, important images and irony. The statement that McCaig makes is, where ever thither is swell wealth it always exists along side great poverty. The poem is set in Assisi in Italy around the 1970s were every the rich tourists are coming in hundreds from all antithetical countries far and wide to see the frescoes painted by Giotto in Assisis huge duomo. McCaig mainly focuses on the dwarf outdoors of the three-tier cathedral built in honour of St. Francis. McCaig then proceeds to the non-Christian priest guiding the tourists around the cathedral telling them the history of Giottos frescoes and how they respectively teach people the goodness of God and the suffering of his son. McCaig uses telling littery techniques to describe the tourists and to describe the dwarf. He then goes on to excuse that the tourists are not studying the frescoes and are just thither to boast about being there. Then he goes on to tell of the dwarfs voice when he says Grazie for the money one of the tourists have given to him outside the cathedral. McCaig uses juxtaposition by situating the dwarf outside of the huge three tier cathedral. McCaig also refers to the dwarf as a ruined temple.

By saying this he creates a huge contrast between the dwarf and the cathedral, he also uses irony to compare the dwarf to St. Francis were he says: out-of-door the three tiers of churches built in honour of St. Francis, brother of the poor, utterer with birds, over whom he had the advantage of not being... If you want to claim a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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