Poetry Analysis/ Practical Criticism "Auto Wreck"- by Kart Shapiro, "Mid-term Break"- by Seamus Heaney.

In "Auto Wreck", as the title insinuates it, is a situation that describes a car accident that takes place in a city, which means, that an ambulance, a hospital, the police, and the crowd are the main actors when death is about to strike. In the development of the poem, Shapiro describes the atmosphere that surrounds a city at night when there is a car accident; Blood all over the streets and gutters, the police …

…death, and in a certain way, he is able to manage it in a right way, determining the rituals and behaviors of adults when death is around, and creating a barrier that separates de morning of the heart from the logic of the brain. And this can be seen at the end of the poem: " A four foot box, a foot for every year" he uses his logic, a math problem, no a heart one.