August 6 1945 Language

In the poem August 6 1945, Alison Fell uses distinct language features to display the views of the pilot of the Enola Gay. Fell displays the horrific events of the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
Throughout this poem, Fell reveals the events that the pilot experienced through the horrific imagery presented to the reader through the use of narrative voice, repetition and personification. These language features combine to express the writer’s purpose of the struggles of the pilot to kill innocent people through the vivid imagery that is created by the result of the bomb.
In the poem August 6 1945, Fell reveals the unstable emotional state of the pilot through narrative voice of the pilot through his view of the events creating powerful imagery for the reader. The narrative voice in the poem is a strong representation of the emotions the pilot was experiencing. Example from the poem is “later in dreams he will look down shrieking and see”. This quote shows the devastation that the pilot has unleashed on Hiroshima. It is a reference to the past events. This representation that Fell has created

Fell uses the word “later” to reveal the events that happened in the past as a reflection of the emotions by the pilot. This gives the impression to the reader that the past tense that the word “later” is used in is providing the pilot and the readers with vivid imagery. In the poem the repetition of “later” is always followed by the use of powerful words which creates powerful imagery for the reader. For example “later he will say that the whole blooming sky went up like an apricot ice” and “later she will walk the dust… her whole stripped skin at her heel”. This repetition displays the writer’s purpose by giving the perspective to the reader that is a reflection by the pilot looking back on the events he