Blood Dazzler: Katrina

What kind of rhythm does the writer create? Is there a variety in the sentence structure? Read the piece aloud to get a sense of the writer's voice. Write about the writer's rhythmic choices and their effect on the overall tone of the piece.
This poem is from the hurricanes point of view. It tells what the hurricane is doing and what it likes to do. It also talks about what kind of material it is going through and what it is picking up. An example of this would be when the hurricane talks about breaking through the slush, branches, and steel.
The writer creates a rhythm when there is a start of a new line. In the lines there are two or three commas separating what the hurricane is doing. This happens in every group of words beside the first.
The first line starts with the hurricane being born and how it is restless so it wants to get out of where ever it was. From there it takes us on the hurricanes journey.
I think the Patricia Smith uses this structure very effectively. I felt as if I knew the hurricane and it was telling me what was going on. So I think it was Patricia Smiths intention to make Hurricane Katrina sound like a human being but to still act like a hurricane. I think this because a human could not do most the things in the poem. A couple of examples would be when the hurricane says it broke through steel or when it was hungering for wood, walls, and unturned skin.