Enola Gay Essay

August 6, 1945by Alison FellIn the Enola unfearingfive minutes before impacthe whistles a ironic tuneLater he bequeath saythat the whole prime skywent up like an apricot ice.Later he testament laugh and trembleat such a surrender, for the eyeof his tummy saw Marilyns skirtsfly over her head for everOn the river bank,bees drizzle overhot white rhododendronsLater she will mountain passthe dust, a scarlet girlwith her whole stripped skinat her heel, stuck like an oldshoe sole or mermaids cigaretLater she will lie d featurein the flecked black ashwhere the people are becomeas lizards or salamandersand, blinded, she will complainMother you are late. So lateLater in dreams he will lookdown shrieking and seeladybirdsladybirds onslaughtRepetitionSimileFemale instead a littlePersonificationAlliteraionMale ViewPronounsGLOSSARYEnola Gay this was the name given to (and painted on) the plane which carried the give out to Hiroshima. The pilots mother was called Enola Gay. Marilyns skir ts there is a famed film clip/still photograph of the American movie whizz Marilyn Monroe, in which she walks over a pavement air vent and the perfervid air from it blows the full skirt of her light-coloured dress upwards over her head. drizzle this means rain lightly, but here is used to rear the way the bees descend, buzzing, on to the flowers. salamanders a salamander is a lizard-like amphibian with a smooth skin.In ancient legend salamanders were supposed to be up to(p) to live in levy. ladybirds there are numerous versions (not all in English) of the nursery rhyme which begins, Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children are gone. There are numerous explanations for it, too. Ladybirds are quite difficult to dislodge, and the rhyme, when recited, was traditionally supposed to induce them to fly off of their own accord.