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CORNELIUS EADY Grief Bird After those buildings fell, And New York City stank from bad intent, And the wind twirled with human pigment, And the sky darkened in one spot and howled, There we walked, newborn, holding flashlights and shovels, Dusty with shock, the streets painted mad, Ears still smarting from the evil crumble. Now the combing, the sifting, Now the hauling, the uncovering. The astonished song
This poem describes the events of the attacks on the twin towers in New York City on September 11, 2001. There is a masculine rhyme scheme in the first stanza of a,b,b,c. The poem recalls the emotions and processes that everyone went through to cope and to look for survivors.
In a sense, this poem is an elegy because it commemorates the suffering between the living and the unfortunate deaths of the victims.
Personification is used in numerous places. New York City stank , the wind twirled , the sky...howled , and the ears still smarting . The song astonished is a metaphor of the song of America, we were shocked and the music stopped playing . The title is a metaphor for the airplanes because it is a flight causing grief.
