"In the Snack Bar," by Edwin Morgan, is a poem written about a real life scenario. It is about an elderly man who is looking for help in a busy snack bar, yet only a couple of people take notice of him. The poem makes the reader feel sympathetic towards the elderly man as we see the struggles that he has to face, this makes us realise that he is really struggling in completing daily tasks. Firstly, we are introduced to the fact that the man is elderly and that he is very slow in what he does. We understand that he has clumsily dropped a cup on the floor, Morgan describes the cup to of made a "dull clatter." The clatter should have made people take notice, but we are then told that only "a few heads turn in the crowded snack bar." This makes us feel sympathetic towards the man as we realise that although he is noticeably struggling in life, nobody helps. Morgan word choice in the first few opening lines emphasises that the old man struggles; "Slowly he levers himself up." Although we know about the old man's actions; how he struggles, we then get a description of the old man's appearance. In Morgan's description, he uses the simile, "like a monstrous animal caught in a tent." This sums up to us just how threatening and uncared for an appearance the old man has. By using the word "animal," it makes us think about how inhuman and fearful he must look. We are told that he wears a "stained beltless gabardine," this adds to our sympathy for the old man as we now believe that he is lonely and has no one to look out for him at home. Our sympathy deepens when the elderly man has to ask someone to walk him to the toilet. We now notice just how helpless the man is to himself and that he needs someone to help him do something that is simple. "I want “to go to the “toilet , the dashes, which means that he had to take pauses in the sentence suggests to us that he even has difficulty with his speech, this deepens our sympathy