A Case of Murder by Vernon Scannel is a poem which deals with a very Es

A Case of Murder by Vernon Scannel is a poem which deals with a very unusual issuance the murder of a cat by a nine year old male child. The poet brings the poem alive by use different writing techniques e.g. greenback lengths.A Case of murder by Vernon ScannelCritical response to literature by Gregor BairdA Case of Murder by Vernon Scannel is a poem which deals with avery unusual topic the murder of a cat by a nine year old male child. Thepoet brings the poem alive by using different writing techniques e.g.line lengths, no rhyme or pattern this holds my attention more andstops the rhyme merge into one tone. He to a fault uses writing techniquessuch as Repetition, Figurative language, structure & rhyme. In thepoem the boy has been left with a cat in a basement straightaway and the catis just sitting buzzing away. This really annoys the boy and thehatred that has gathered up in the boy. This results in the boyhitting the cat consequently prodding the cat then crushing the cat in betweenthe door. In result to this the boy cries and decides to get a shovelfrom the cupboard low the stairs and he shovels the cat into thecupboard under the stairs. Although the cat is dead he thinks the catis growing in the cupboard and the cupboard is going to split.The boy in the poem is very annoyed to the highest degree the cat He hated that cathe watched it sit a buzzing machine of flocculent black stuff because thecat gets all the attention and he is left out, therefore the boy isjealous of the cat. From the poem it tells us that the boy is insecurewith his parents He was only nine, not old enough to be left alone ina basement flat because they left a nine-year-old alone with a cat ina basement flat with no one. This also tells us that h... ...re isnt something the poet wants to commit to in this poem. Itdoesnt have an order of unceasing size in each stanza a variety oflength of lines. Unclear pattern allows us to see the change in theboys emotions.The subject area of this poem is all to do with guilt, which has beenmentioned in the essay. Hate is the main emotion between boy and cat,conscience a thing, which the boy does have, power that has beenswapped from cat to boy and anger which has built up in the boy.In conclusion to this critical response to literature I have 1coveredthe techniques in the poem, the emotions, the situation between theboy and the cat and the very unusual topic. It has been described howthe poet brings the unusual poem alive for us. We have discussed thecharacter and how he changed during the main incident and in depthabout the emotion and feeling of the boy.