... Clarke carefully describes her reaction to this change. In this poem Clarke shows a lot of emissions, her anger and hatred to the people that were in charge of the demolition of this building. There is no real structure to this poem; it has two free verses, which means that the verses haven't got any regular pattern. Overall the poet deals with Transience, which is the passing of time. In the first stanza Clarke describes how fast the demolition was and in the second stanza Clarke describes how the J.C.B driver doesn't care and how we are the ones who are killing buildings. She makes this clear by saying 'Blood on our hands' which makes us think that we have murdered this building. The building is valuable to her as she is Welsh and so is the building. She takes it very personally, by saying 'Inside the car dust lies, grit ...

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