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Focusing upon both ‘structure’ and ‘function’ produce a critical analysis of Craig Raine’s poem ‘A Martian Sends A Postcard Home’
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BEN MURRAY ENL 061 " Focusing upon both 'structure' and 'function' produce a critical analysis of Craig Raine's poem 'A Martian Sends A Postcard Home'" Perhaps the most important feature of Craig Raine's 1979 poem 'A Martian Sends A Postcard Home' is that is uses an alien voice as its persona, when writing a poet may use their own voice, someone else's voice or indeed have a multi-voiced persona as a tool of reaching, challenging and pleasing their audience. It is a very useful tool as this poet shows. Raine's piece is directed by a keenly observant, intelligent (if not always intelligible), disengaged tone. Using this foreign voice Raine can intrigue the reader by making conventional objects seem unusual. One example would be: 'Mist is when the sky is tired of flight and rests its soft machine on ground' From this quote the audience can acknowledge that this visitor has appreciated the natural...
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