Out of the Blue is a dramatic extract by Steven Armitage, it is from the perspective of a victim of 9/11 in the the Tower as the events unravel. The effect this poem represented, combined with my own knowledge of the tragic event, leaves me with the feeling of pit of depression. The feeling knowing that the event was so sudden that no one was prepared or had any idea what to do along with the knowledge of hundreds of innocent lives lost. The way this person describes the experience helps make you feel the devastations such as the ‘the heat behind me is bullying, driving’ and you get an understanding of the fear the person had being trapped between the ‘bullying’ heat and the several thousand foot drop which he describe the depth as ‘appalling, appalling’. the amount of repetition presented is used to emphasise the situation to project the amount of fear and emotion coming from the person.

When the poem comes to the iconic ‘white cotton shirt is twirling, turning, in fact i am waving, waving/does anyone else see a soul worth saving’ you get the concept that the person was waving for help in way that is similar to the person surrendering to the chaos. However, no one was capable of reaching anyone so they began to loss hope and wonder if they could be saved. This is what drove the person to the events of the 5th stanza ‘A bird goes by, the depth is appalling that others like me should be wind-milling, wheeling, spiralling, falling, are your eyes believing, believing that here in the gill i am still breathing’. As many people know that a majority of people in the tower chose to take their own lives than have them taken from them, the person is one of them. The person described a person already falling as like a bird, he then goes on to describing his flailing actions and it finishes with the person asking if the whole world eyes are open to see the people losing their lives one way or another. The whole poem is the description of a nightmare and sets a setting that no one wants to imagine or inhabit for that day was truly one of the world’s darkest days.