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A drive of Murder by Vernon Scannel is a meter which deals with a really funny topic the writ of execution of a flush by a 9 year old male child. The poet brings the poem alive by using unalike writing techniques e.g. line continuances.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 ludicrous topic the murder of a cat by a nine year old son. Thepoet brings the poem alive by using different writing techniques e.g.line lengths, no rhyme or pattern this holds my assistance more andstops the rhyme merge into one tone. He in addition uses writing techniquessuch as Repetition, Figurative language, structure & rhyme. In thepoem the boy has been left with a cat in a root cellar flat 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 boy strike the cat then prodding the cat then crushing the cat in betweenthe door. In result to this the boy cries and decides to get a shovelfrom the press under 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 about the cat He hated that cathe watched it sit a buzzing machine of soft black close up 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 besides 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 in addition tells us that h... ...re isnt something the poet wants to commit to in this poem. Itdoesnt constitute an dictate of regular size in each stanza a variety oflength of lines. Unclear pattern allows us to see the change in theboys emotions.The theme of this p oem is all to do with guilt, which has beenmentioned in the essay. nauseate 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 spirit of the boy.