A poem I read recently was Assisi by Norman MacCaig. This poem was very interesting to read, it has lots of good techniques of writing such as word-choice, irony, imagery and good figures of speech. This is a poem written many years ago and it still has something important to say to us today. MacCaigs poem tell us about many tourists are coming to see the frescoes painted by Giotto in the huge church. The poem is mainly about the dwarf who sits outside the church. The poet tells us of Giotto's paintings, how they tell us about the good works of God and the suffering of all his children. Good uses of littery are used to describe the dwarf and the tourists in the poem. MacCaig tells of how the tourists are really in Assisi so that they can tell all of their friends they have been...