Curse

What is the importance of Line Five in the poem, Curse?

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Line 5 employs the old “eye for an eye” concept of retribution. Just as the terrorists of September 11 “made” the World Trade Center fall, killing nearly three thousand people, the speaker wishes for the same to happen to them. Another common saying that this line brings to mind is, “You reap what you sow.” At the heart of the speaker’s curse is the desire for the terrorists themselves to experience terror.

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