Can you provide me with a detailed analysis of "Heron at Port Talbot" by Gillian Clarke? Include poetic devices, imagery, diction and if possible...

Laurine Herzog

"Heron at Port Talbot" describes the speaker's "near-collision"
with another motorist. It is set against the industrial background of the Welsh town of Port
Talbot.

One language device used in the poem is . The industrial machinery
has "old bones [which] whiten," for example. Thiscreates the impression that the
machinery is alive, but dying. Indeed, "death / settles with its rusts."

The speaker also uses a, in stanza 5, when...

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