A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"
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A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Craig Raine
1979
Introduction
In 1979 Craig Raine received the New Statesman’s Prudence Farmer Award for his poem A Martian Sends a Postcard Home.
Written from the point of view of a Martian attempting to describe what he sees on earth to his fellow Martians, the poem employs a series of metaphors to explain both natural and man-made phenomena. Often the metaphors make connections between technology and nature, with the Martian frequently describing nature or culture in terms of a machine. For example, the speaker calls books mechanical birds with many wings
because he does not know the word book.
The effect of describing the world in this way causes us, as readers, to experience the strangeness of our own everyday lives—to see things the way that an outsider would see