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  1. Why great? 2. Why a figure? 3. Where is the rain? 4. Who was on fire?    5.What now?

 

The Great Figure
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city
Source: The Poetry Foundation