Assisi
...ed and poor. It also made me feel like I wanted to help him. A second way McCaig conveys his horror is through use of metaphor. “Tiny twisted legs from which/ Sawdust might run”. This is effective because it is comparing the man to a raggy doll, filled with sawdust. It also shows how McCaig is comparing the man to something that is barely human. It made me see that the man wasn’t coping well in life. His life has fallen apart. This really shocked me because it made me see how different the man was to real human beings. Although the man is a human being, he is very different to us. He is deformed and poor. This is such a shame on this man because he is a really nice person. A third way McCaig conveys his horror is though use of metaphor. “The ruined temple outside”. This is effective because the man is being compared to a damaged church. “Temple” is a metaphor that is used in the Christian Bible for the human body. Here “Temple” is used to emphasise that the tourists and the priest are more interested in this beautiful elaborate church than this man that is suffering. The church is supposed to be used in a Christian way, but here no one is acting like that. This really shocked me because it showed me how much people care about objects or places of interests rather than people that are suffering. Again I felt a huge amount of sympathy for this man. A fourth way McCaig conveys his horror is through use of simile. “He said ‘Grazie’ in a voice as sweet As a childs when she speaks to her mother Or a birds when it spoke To St Francis”. This is effective because McCaig is comparing his voice to stuff we think of as nice. Like a childs voice or a birdsong. It also compares him to something we think of as vulnerable. Something that needs to be protected a lot. It makes a link between the dwarf and Street Francis. St Francis was kind and gave a lot of money away to the poor. Street Fr...