The Terrorist he Watches

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Introduction
From the poem, we can characterize the poem’s speaker as an accomplice based on several facts obtained from the poem supporting the position. The full flow of the drama read in the poem of the terrorist activity, and the speaker who seems to be cooperating with the terrorist are some of the insights that can enable us to refer to the speaker as an accomplice. The following are the facts that support my position.
We may interpret the narrator himself as the terrorist himself because the narrator does not use the first person at any point in the poem. The narrator knows exactly at what time the bomb will explode. He says that it will explode at twenty past one in the bar. He is monitoring all the all activities with time in the anticipated crime scene. It is an indication that the narrator was part of the plan to carry out a terrorist attack. The plan comes out clear when the speaker narrates that some will have enough time to enter as well as others having time to leave the anticipated crime scene.
The terrorist sounds emotionless as well as inhumanly detached. He says that the terrorist is safe from the anticipated bomb, and he can victims streaming in the bar as well as outside the bar like mere ants. The poem’s salient feature is its irony that is both contextual and dramatic. The speaker creates a dramatic scene by pointing out that the bomb is about to blow to harm a crowd of civilians who innocent and unsuspecti…