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Norman MacCaig Assisi Stanza 1
- "The dwarf with his hand on
backwards"
- Metaphor
- Grotesque imagery
- "Slumped like a
half-filled sack"
- Dehumanizes the
beggar
- Deformed
shell of a man
- Cannot support
himself
- "Outside the three
tiers of churches built
in honour of St Francis"
- Juxtaposition
- Broken structure of beggar
with powerful structure of
church
- Inconguous
- Architecturally complex building to honour
a priest with plain, simple tastes and
philosophies
- "He had the advantage of not
being dead yet"
- Bitter, caustic tone
- Being alive is the single thing in the
beggars favour
- MacCaig implied it would be
better if the beggar were dead
rather than endure a terrible
existance