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In the Snack Bar.
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In the Snack Bar The poem "In the Snack Bar" by Edwin Morgan is, in my opinion, a great poem. It tells about the disaster of a blind old man spilling his coffee and then having to announce his need of having to go to the toilet to the public in the hope that someone will find it in their heart to help him. In this I will point out the literary techniques that Morgan uses that make it a great poem. In the poem I think Morgan's word choice is excellent. He turns what most people would simply class as an everyday occurrence into a catastrophe not just saying that the man spilt his coffee. Instead he says "the cup capsizes along the formica" and the cup didn't fall to the floor and smash it "slithered to the floor with a dull clatter" I think both of these...
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