Answer: I thought the personification of the storm was quite detailed and vivid in my mind. Especially on page 5 when it describes the landfall of Hurricane Katrina in Florida. Patricia Smith gives off the idea that the storm is compared to a drug addict, hungering and festering, forcing itself to want more than tolerable and leaving destruction in its wake. I think the whole use of the storm being set as a person really brings about a sort of pity and even more fear towards something that is already terrifying. The storm might not say that it relates itself to a drug addict, but its actions and choice of words reflect such a person. I also liked the word arrangements in the poem, almost as if the storm too had ripped up and tore through the poem as it hurls on a path of destruction.
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