Firetruck

I believe the purpose of this poem, is to displace the authors experience of a passing fire truck on to the reader. Since this is not a piece of prose, he is trying to convey his personal emotional interpretation of the event.

It's harder to judge if a peice of poerty is good or not using a measureable criteria. Since the authors purpose is to pass on the emotional experience of a passing firetruck, one person many be able to make the emotional association while another may not. So if this peice of poetry is good or not is totally dependant on the reader. This being said I did feel it was an effective peice. In the first stanza, the author uses an "s" sound frequently. This helps demonstrate the boldness and harshness of the fire truck as he describes it. He continues his vivid description and then says his mind is completely blank. Showing that the firetruck can completely consume all the senses in it's "phoenix red simplicity" is a very powerful image. I'm sure many people can relate to having their senses entirely occupied, so that there is nothing but you and, in this case, a firetruck. In conclusion, the effective imagery and description definetely created a bridge from a previous emotional experience to the one he was attempting to describe, and in that respect, it was a very effective peice of poetry.