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    A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"
    A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"
    A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"
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    A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"

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    A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535816861
    A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"

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      A Martian Sends a Postcard Home

      Craig Raine

      1979

      Introduction

      In 1979 Craig Raine received the New Statesman’s Prudence Farmer Award for his poem A Martian Sends a Postcard Home. Written from the point of view of a Martian attempting to describe what he sees on earth to his fellow Martians, the poem employs a series of metaphors to explain both natural and man-made phenomena. Often the metaphors make connections between technology and nature, with the Martian frequently describing nature or culture in terms of a machine. For example, the speaker calls books mechanical birds with many wings because he does not know the word book. The effect of describing the world in this way causes us, as readers, to experience the strangeness of our own everyday lives—to see things the way that an outsider would see

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