Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Norman MacCaig Assisi Stanza 3
- "Clucking contentedly, fluttered after him as he
scattered the grain of the Word"
- Metaphor
- Comparing priest to a farmer
scattering feed for chickens
- "grain of the Word"
- Ironic Allusion to the
biblical Parable Jesus told.
- The tourists are blindly
obedient to the priest
- "The ruined temple outside"
- Dwarf directly juxtaposed
with the church
- Metaphor
- A temple is something revered, significant
and beautiful but has become ruined due to
neglect, much like the beggar
- "said Grazie in a voice as sweet as a
child's when she speaks to her mother"
- Simile
- Comparing the beggar to a child
emphasises his innocence and his
gratitude for the smallest kindness
- This forces the reader to feel
pity not only for the beggar's
physical difficulties but also
for his vulnerability and
helplessness
- "Whose eyes wept pus, whose
back was higher than his
head, whose lopsided mouth"
- Structure
- MacCaig lists the beggars
deformities
- Creates incredibly vivid
image of the beggar
- "Or a bird's when it spoke to St Francis"
- Structure
- MacCaig ends with St Francis
as the final image
- St Francis demonstrated the true teachings
of Christ, by showing that every living
creature, no matter how insignificant, is
worthy of compassion