Assisi (Stanza Three) - Norman MacCaig
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- assisi - stanza three
- 'clucking contentedly'
- MacCaig compares the tourists to a flock of chickens
- just taking in what the priest is saying and follow him blindly
- 'fluttered after him'
- just taking in what the priest is saying and follow him blindly
- 'he scattered the grain of the Word'
- still with the chicken metaphor
- 'fluttered after him'
- 'fluttered after him'
- the tourists are just following after the priest mindlessly and eating up what the priest is telling them
- still with the chicken metaphor
- 'It was they who had passed the ruined temple outside'
- 'ruined temple' describes the beggar
- syntax tells us that MacCaig doesn't associate himself with the other tourists or the priest
- 'wept pus, whose back was higher than his head, whose lopsided mouth said Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child's'
- all the grotesque images reinforces the shocking conditions that the man is in
- creates a vivid image of the beggar
- 'Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child's' contrasts all the deformities the beggar has
- shows us that the beggar is grateful for everything instead of bitterness
- 'clucking contentedly'
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