... Clarke carefully describes her reaction to this change. In this poem Clarke shows a lot of emotions, her anger and hatred to the people that were in charge of the demolition of this building and her shock at how quickly it was torn down. 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 does not care and how we are the ones who are killing buildings. The building is symbolic, because the buildings are a piece of history and they are part of our lives. She makes this clear by saying 'Blood on our hands' which makes us think that we have committed murder. The building is valuable to her as she is Welsh and so is the building. She takes it very personally, by saying ...

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