A Martian Sends A Postcard Home Answers. In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps, that snores when you pick it up. In the poem, the Martian tries to explain the phenomena it sees on Earth, such as books, toilets, and rain, all discussed in a postcard home to its planet.
He had made certain to take a reading from the barometer that hung in the den only after his parents and his brother, Simon had all gone to bed; well-meaning as they were he would rather not have to answer endless questions when he much rather do this on his own.
And in this poem's case, the author Craig Raine used an alien or a Martian, in particular, to observe the world with brand new eyes and form of understanding.
The entire poem consists of colorful and whimsical metaphors, which describe usual and habitual things which. ( For more poetry analyses, see Great poetry explained: an index to my blogs ). But who has that amount of time nowadays? Raine makes reference to William Caxton, who was the first to.