assisi

• The dwarf with his hands on backwards


  metaphor: deformed hands
• slumped


  word choice: hunchback
• half-filled sack


  metaphor: tired and poor posture
• tiny twisted legs


  metaphor + alliteration: dwarfism and deformed legs, amplifies the imagery
• sawdust might run


  metaphor: the beggar has fragile bones due to his malnourished body
• outside the three tiers of churches built


  irony + juxtaposition: ironic how the grand church honours St. Francis despite him being humble, compares the church to the beauty and elegance of a traditional wedding cake
• in honour of St Francis


  irony: ironic how the grand and elegant church is built for the humble Saint
• brother / of the poor, talker with birds


  juxtaposition: contrasts to the wealthy church
• he had the advantage / of not being dead yet.


  irony + caesura: the beggar is not living at an advantage due to his struggles, emphasises 'advantage' which amplifies the message
• how clever it was of Giotto / to make his frescoes tell stories


  irony: the priest acts more like a tour guide to benefit from money from the tourists as he is corrupted
• reveal to the illiterate the goodness / of God and the suffering / of His Son.


  irony + enjambment: rather than helping the underprivileged, they are spending money to show them what life they could have contrasting to the values and virtues of the Saint, enjambment emphasises 'goodness' which gives off a sarcastic tone
• I understood / the explanation and / the cleverness.


  tone (sarcasm) + enjambment: the poet is being sarcastic as he has realised the hypocrisy about the priest, 'explanation' and 'cleverness is emphasised
• clucking contentedly


  zoomorphism + alliteration: tourists being described as chickens as they are mindlessly following the priest's words, the alliteration highlights the message
• fluttered after him as he scattered / the grain of the Word.


  zoomorphism + metaphor + irony + enjambment: the mindless tourists being characterised as chickens as the priest threw around the Word of God with stripped meaning as he is not a follower himself as if it was chicken food, 'scattered' is being emphasised as it is random and without meaning
• the ruined temple outside


  metaphor + personification: refers to the beggar which is characterised as the true temple of St. Francis
• whose eyes / wept pus


  imagery + enjambment: the graphic of his unhygienic eyes strikes a sense of pity to the reader, emphasis on 'wept
• whose back was higher / than his head


  imagery + enjambment: illustration of the hunchback is provided to make the reader feel compassion for him, 'higher' is amplified
• whose lopsided mouth / said Grazie


  imagery + enjambment: image of his deformed mouth is provided to make the reader empathetic, amplified message made with the line break
• in a voice as sweet / as a child's when she speaks to her mother


  simile + enjambment: voice of the beggar compared to a little girl's voice which has connotations of respectful, break in the line emphasises 'sweet'
• a bird's when it spoke / to St Francis.


  irony: the homeless man has more similarities with St. Francis than the church does