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Critical Evaluation-AssisiA poem that I spend a penny been study recently is Assisi by Norman McCaig, which I found actu onlyy interesting to read because it made a statement which relates to our world nowadays even though the poem was wrote about thirty or xl years ago. The poem has lots of ideas including effective figures of speech, good choice of words, burning(prenominal) images and irony. The statement that McCaig makes is, where ever there is great wealth it always exists along side great poverty.The poem is set in Assisi in Italy about the 1970s were all the rich tourists are coming in hundreds from all different countries far and wide to see the frescoes painted by Giotto in Assisis capacious cathedral. McCaig mainly focuses on the midget orthogonal of the three-tier cathedral built in innocence of St. Francis. McCaig then proceeds to the priest directional the tourists around the cathedral telling them the history of Giottos frescoes and how they individually memorize people the goodness of God and the suffering of his son. McCaig uses effective littery techniques to specify the tourists and to describe the dwarf. He then goes on to explain that the tourists are not studying the frescoes and are just there to boast about being there. whence he goes on to tell of the dwarfs voice when he says Grazie for the m iodiney one of the tourists have given to him outside the cathedral.McCaig uses juxtaposition by situating the dwarf outside of the huge three tier cathedral. McCaig also refers to the dwarf as a ruined temple. By saying this he creates a huge contrast between the dwarf and the cathedral, he also uses irony to equalise the dwarf to St. Francis were he saysOutside the three tiers of churches built in honour of St. Francis, brother of thepoor, talker with birds, over whomhe had the advantage of not being dead yet. This is saying that the dwarf had an advantage over one assembly of people, the dead. I think that it was a good idea to situate the dwarf outside the huge cathedral and create the image of a great, strong, beautifully designed building standing over a small, weak, deformed person.McCaig gives the contributor a graphic description of the dwarf in both stanzas 1 and 3 where he uses many littery techniques to describe the dwarf. In stanza 1 he uses alliteration, simile and metaphor to give the reader a graphic plenty of the dwarfs deformed body