For this blog post, I decided to write a poem because this unit is about poetry. This poem is about both mysterious and tells of a killer.
Where were you?
Tell me you don't,
Understand how it happened,
Because when it groaned,
Where were you?
When it grappled,
When it brawled,
When it wrestled
Tell me you don't
Hear it anymore
Because when it cried
Where were you?
When it weeped
When it whimpered
When it wailed
Tell me you don't
Notice its blue skin
Because when it froze
Where were you?
When it gasped
When it puffed
When it wheezed
Tell me you don't
Please
Tell me you don't
Because when he suffocated
Where were you?
Summary of the poem
This poem about a mother (the speaker) interrogating a killer after her son was drowned. The killer here is someone that she is close to. I decided to do someone that she is close to because it displays the pleading in the poem. When the speaker says ' tell me you don't ' at the beginning of each stanza, it displays her unbelief and that she is desperate because she doesn't want it to be true, despite the clear evidence that was given to her.
I use repetition and alliteration to emphasise on a certain points and rhythm to enhance the ideas of the poem. The poem is filled with alliteration, repetition, rhythm and rhetorical questions in each stanza because I'm trying to get the reader to understand the pleading of the poem. The tone of the speaker displays desperation, unbelief and pleading.
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