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This poem focuses on the memory of an enjoyable experience that has just finished.
Always as if for the first time we watch
The fireworks as if no one had ever
Done this before, made shapes, signs,
Cut diamonds on air, sent up stars
Nameless, imperious. (...)
This first sentence is a description of the enthusiasm with which we watch fireworks.The first person plural seems to be a generalization which includes all human beings. In the first line, there is a hyperbaton that rearranges the order of the sentence to emphasise the first-time excitement people experience whenever they watch this spectacle. Even though we have seen fireworks before, we feel as if we are watching something completely new, “as if no had ever /done this before”.
In these lines, there are a number of caesuras at irregular intervals that create a staccato pace and reminds us of the explosions and different duration of the fireworks.
