If anyone could help me find poetic techniques within this poem [such as alliteration, metaphors, personification, repetition, visual/aural imagery or others] i would really appreciate.
The Burning Truck by Les Murray
- personification
its whole
body and substance were consumed with heat
Windows spat glass
- visual/aural imagery
growing enormous, shambling by our street-doors,
coming and coming
Its down-and-out palooka, Nate Poole ( Mickey Rourke ), is a jazz trumpeter turned small-time crook employed by the prim and dapper crime boss Happy Shannon ( Bill Murray ). Nate runs afoul of Happy after sleeping with his wife and narrowly avoids assassination in the Mexican desert by Happy’s enforcer (played by Chuck Liddell, the former mixed martial arts fighter).
Nate stumbles upon a traveling carnival whose prime attraction, Lily ( Megan Fox ), a beautiful bird woman with real wings, is exhibited as a sideshow. The property of the carnival’s owner, Sam (Rhys Ifans), Lily flees with Nate in a pickup truck. Before long Happy catches up with Nate but agrees not to kill him, in exchange for Lily, who ends up posing in a glass cage in his private nightclub.
You might reasonably assume that any movie starring Mr. Rourke and Mr. Murray would have to have something to recommend it. But aside from a haunting musical interlude, in which Mr. Rourke, with pathetic ineptitude, mimes playing a trumpet, “Passion Play” is barely palatable. Mr. Rourke mopes through much of the movie on the brink of tears, and Mr. Murray’s killer is a snippy cipher. Ms. Fox’s nonluminous Lily remains a standard male fantasy of a damsel in distress until the inevitable “Wind Beneath My Wings” moment lofts the movie into a never-never land of hokey sentimentality.
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Blow the Trumpet, Palooka, Life Is but a Carny Dream
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