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How are the character and attitudes of the jogger revealed in the language the poet uses?
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How are the character and attitudes of the jogger revealed in the language the poet uses? I think it is fair to say that right from the beginning of the poem, the poet gives the reader an instant image of the jogger as a negative one. The first line, "Well, she was asking for it" makes the reader see the jogger as being inconsiderate, brutal and insensitive. It also sounds as though he is trying to shift the blame, and make an excuse for something and also sounds childish. The poem is written almost like a soliloquy and so the reader is aware that these are the jogger's thoughts, this is what he is thinking about the event. The use of the phrase "pissed of course" demonstrates how the poet is trying to show the jogger is making assumptions without knowing the facts, and that because she had been drinking, she was "dyin...
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