Poetry Precis 14- "School Day Afternoon" by Dave Etter

Using imagery and alliteration in his poem, "School Day Afternoon", David Etter writes with an enthusiastic tone to capture the excitement of being a child at home alone. The speaker says he will "make myself a sugar sandwich", not only using alliteration with the use of the letter s, but he also uses imagery in this allowing the reader to picture this child made sandwich which goes against the rules of most parents who would make their kids eat something healthy. Rather than finishing his homework or studying for a test, the boy says he will "go outside and look at the birds" and he will see "the gigantic blue silo." Through this description of this bird, the reader thinks of freedom, almost as if the silo is a symbol of the boy, free without any expectations. The imagery presented in this poem lives the poem, allowing the reader to understand the excitement the boy feels when he is alone at home without his mother.