Szymborsk The Terrorists

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describe a group of people’s everyday normal actions to express the importance of time and the capricious occurrences in life. The terrorist shows no signs of emotions describing the experience of being “just like the movies.” Szymborska establishes the terrorists disconnect and isolation from the scene. In the poem, Szymborska reaches to have readers defamiliarize and put themselves into the mind of the terrorist instead of the victims, unlike “Photograph from September 11th”, she utilizes diction to do this. The terrorist describes a “yellow jacket”, yellow often is associated with sickness or weaknesses, which can be used to describe the position these people are in. Youth is also brought into play, as the terrorist describes a little girl

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