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Summary Of The Window At The Moment Of Flame

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Alicia Suskin Ostriker's, “The Window, at the Moment of Flame” and Jack Gilbert's Michiko Dead” are poems that connect to the reader to deliver different, yet powerful and complex themes. There are different thematic statements that really bring out the author's strong feelings behind what many may think the thematic concepts says. “The Window, at the Moment of Flame” was written two weeks after 9/11 showing a glimpse of what it means to be an innocent American in a world wracked by violence. Ostriker says she was trying to "mostly tap a sense of looking on helplessly at human madness"(Friday Pick). Her poem is written in the first person point-of-view and we see directly into a child’s mind in the first line, and as the distance increases
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