Firstly , I think that the theme for this poem is violence. This is because in every stanza of the poem, a very violent image is projected to the reader like "throttled him then and there" and "he hacked his way".
For this poem, there are 10 stanzas and 4 sentences in each stanza. This make it easier to read and at the same time, it produces an imagery of a gun firing. This is because each stanza is short and fast to read, just like a gun firing.
The language used in this poem is also very figurative. The teacher said that 'I'm going to teach you a lesson, one that you'll never forget', however, he is not teaching a normal lesson in class but instead, killing all the students. It is also ironical, the teacher should be the one teaching the students not to be violent but he himself is super violent. All these are examples of figurative language that could be found throughout the poem. Also, the teacher failed to teach them a lesson as all of them are already dead and could not think or remember things.
Lastly, I think that the poet that written this poem may be a teacher himself before and had taught a class which is very noisy and naughty. I think that he is trying to express his feelings and telling the public that sometimes a class can be so noisy and naughty that a teacher can get very frustrated and wants to kill all of them. At the same time, he is also trying to tell the public that being a teacher is not as easy as many people think.
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