Fifteen Million Plastic Bags Poetry Analysis

Fifteen Million Plastic Bags, by Adrian Mitchell is a very eerie poem with a very apocalyptic sent lingering all around it. This poem is very chilling and almost unsettling with its apocalyptic sent that lingers al around, especially for having a name like Fifteen Million Plastic Bags.

Mitchell is depicting a short story about a man and what he is seeing in, what seems like, a world plagued by bloodshed, due to arms race that has resulted in a Cold War. This man is walking into a warehouse full of fifteen million plastic bags, which are obviously body bags. Everyone that is in existence in this war is afraid to stand out or stand up against the injustices that are commencing. It’s almost as if everyone is having to conform to the “man without a voice” standard, and are dying due to that action.

The overall theme of this chilling poem is one that

Due to its overwhelming imagery and apocalyptic feel, this poem holds a very chilling and fearful tone. The man in this story gets in his six foot long bag and waits “for the priest to zip it [so] the radiation won’t spread.” He is so afraid to stand out that he feels that death will protect from all the horrors. His actions show that he is fearful of not knowing what is going to happen. But to begin this little story the man walks into a warehouse where “daylight never goes.” A place where daylight is non-existent is sounds very intimidating and creepy, therefore exhibiting a chilling tone. Also, he saw “[fifteen] million plastic bags hanging in a thousand rows.” Since the bags are representing body bags that would be an extremely overwhelming site; especially since there are fifteen million of them. This, along with the last example, coincide with each other to give off this chilling a

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