The crash
Speeding down the runway
Lifting off the ground into the air
Like a bird taking off
The cabin shaking
Sirens filling the heads of the passengers
Screaming and crying
Keep your heads down
Brace for impact, brace for impact, brace for impact
Smashing like ice, into a million pieces
The lives of 176 people
Claimed by the Iranian missile
Governments like the serpent in the garden of Eden
Family suffering the loss of loved ones
Indescribable feelings
The world watching for what comes next
The start of a war
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/bodies-of-11-ukrainians-killed-in-iran-plane-crash-sent-home-1.4774071
about the poem:
the poem:
A plastic mask of self unknown
This is a poem about how people in today’s society are not what they once were. People today put on a mask, hiding their true selves and how we do not truly mean what we say. It is an open poem. The poem talks about how we are all becoming almost the same person, we all strive for materialistic and the tangible instead of the intangible, and we are all kind of lost, in the way that we do not really know who we are on the inside. Some of the devices used in the poem are descriptive imagery, metaphor, repetition and personification. Descriptive imagery is found in words like, isolation, self-unknown, plastic mask and blemish, a metaphor in the poem is, “army of consumers”, repetition in the poem is structured men, structured worlds and plastic mask is used a lot during the poem, lastly, personification is when he says “individuality is on strike”. This connects to Oryx and Crake because of the tangible and intangible, in the poem it is talking about how we are so focused on the tangible, and we strive for the tangible instead of the intangible, which is very similar to Oryx and Crake because it is the same in their society. I really enjoyed this poem and it really opened my eyes even more to this issue we have in our society, and it makes me want to stop focusing on the tangible and start to strive for the intangible.