What different feelings are conveyed through the poem. Put a tick mark () against all the right words.

Why were the people moving with their 'arms stretched straight-out'?

Read lines 49-70. Pick out words that suggest an absence of 'sound'. Why do you think everybody was silent?

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The poem offers a series of snapshots of the horrors of an atom bomb, as observed by the narrator. Note that he himself is a victim. Yet his mental faculties remain alert and alive. Pick out a few snapshots that bring out the horrors of an atom bomb's use.

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Does the narrator know what exactly has caused a suffering of such magnitude? Why/Why not?