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Glasgow 5th March 1971
This poem is about an incident in Glasgow where a man and his girl have been pushed through a window so that two youth can complete a robbery. When we arrive the incident is already happening .The man and his girl both have injuries the girl could die as she has serious injuries and she is losing blood .The two youths do not convey any emotion at all to what has just happened .
In the background everyone else is still continuing on with their life's .
The first technique that is used in the poem is onomatopoeia the word is used to make us visualise the glass breaking and it also tells us the type of noise the glass made when it broke. By doing this he gives us the impression of the glass breaking into tiny pieces and the noise that it would have made.
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