Firetruck

The purpose of the poem "A Fire Truck by Richard Wilbur is a descriptive piece of writing. It is illustrating the experience of seeing a fire truck rushing down a street in response to an emergency. A fire truck racing down the street, is a sight that many people see, take notice of, and promptly forget. However, if you think about it, that fire truck is going somewhere to help someone through a traumatic event in their life. While the poem itself does not describe that particular event, it does take more note of the truck itself than people normally do, and give a sense of the hurried, tense, urgent situation that fire trucks represents.
I believe that "A Fire Truck" is a good piece of poetry. The use of descriptive adjectives such as "shocked", "uproarious", "heavy", and "phoenix- red" is something I quite enjoy . There are many intense verbs like "skittering", "purged", and "brooding". Wilbur's use of language in general is quite good, and it caused me to think about a fire truck in a way I don't normally look at it. Usually people associate the fire truck with fire and emergency and don't look beyond that. Wilbur looks at the physical aspects of the fire truck, the way it moves, and his reaction to it and this broad point of view creates a commendable poem.