How does the poet create desperation in the poem?
This poem is written from the perspective of a man who is stuck in the twin towers during the 9/11 bombing, the man in the poem is talking got those who watching him. The man in the poem is captured on film twirling a white cotton shirt trying to gain attention so somebody could find him, in the poem it says ‘you have picked me out, through a distant shot of a building burning’ the need of desperation occurs when he says ‘i am trying and trying, because he is stating that he is trying his best and he is currently out of options and the only other option would be to kill himself or just stand there and burn in the sweltering heat.