Auto Wreck Poetic Techniques

There are many images in the poem Auto Wreck that provide an emotional value of saving. The equipped vehicle that carries people to the hospital called an ambulance, simply gave a feeling of saving. At first a silver bell is noticed by its soft sound, repeatedly giving its gentle low volume, “its quick soft silver bell beating,” The bell itself gives an alarming feeling. As the hospital wagon arrives it gives a hopeful feeling. Likewise, in the saying “past beacons and illuminated clocks,” which were represented as the city lights and how fast time goes. Furthermore, when it came, “brakes speed, dips down, wings in a heavy curve,” explains how fast it arrived to save whoever was hurt in the car accident. The flashing light is specified as a

The last tolling of the ambulance bell sadly gives a hopeless feeling. “Then the bell, breaking the hush, tolls once,”—unravelling a declaration of death, giving no hope whoever was hurt in the accident. Likewise, being that there were people watching what was going on, gives an expression of worry. The innocent bystanders pass by, also picturing if it was themselves who were involved in this fatality, “we are deranged, walking among the cops,”. In a negative mindset, drivers pass by with no hope in thinking the people who were in this car wreck are going to survive. The cops continue the do their job investigated the scene, “one is making notes under the light,”. Interpreting a sensation of responsibility, one of the officers are marking details making bystanders curious as to what happened. Moreover, as the streets are being cleaned, “one with a bucket douches ponds of blood into the street and gutter,” giving a presence of dreadfulness. The horror feeling prolongs when the blood is being cleaned away from the accident. The imagery, “empty husks of locusts, to iron poles,” explains the life like feeling the cars had they had before and after they crashed. All in all, seeing these cars wrapped around the light poles, gives an emotion of death and