Can anyone please help my outline the poetic techniques?
'Martin and the hand grenade'
Martin displays the grenade, the class pauses
for history. With his father's bleak skill
Martin edges out the firing pin, indicates
the chamber where the powder went; he fingers
the serrations, bristles with the shrapnel
possibilites. Questions. No-it had limited
power: ten yards, then the spread
became too loose to catch a man's mortality.
Around the class now. And each boy holds
the small war, lifts it into the air
above the desk trenches: the dead weapon hurls
across mind fields, tears the heart ahead
'Martin and the hand grenade'
Martin displays the grenade, the class pauses
for history. With his father's bleak skill
Martin edges out the firing pin, indicates
the chamber where the powder went; he fingers
the serrations, bristles with the shrapnel
possibilites. Questions. No-it had limited
power: ten yards, then the spread
became too loose to catch a man's mortality.
Around the class now. And each boy holds
the small war, lifts it into the air
above the desk trenches: the dead weapon hurls
across mind fields, tears the heart ahead