When I first read Pantoum of the Great Depression I was extremely bored and the poem felt extremely long and dull, though this is not something most poets want their audience to feel, Justice seems to have a purpose behind this dullness. He uses this technique to show the ordinariness in their suffering, as well as the long lasting, and far from great life that people lived during the Great Depression. One of the most prominent ways to see this is to look at the pantoum format. Because the audience hears two lines two times in an eight line period and this happens multiple times, it makes the tone seem uninteresting and unimportant which displays how average and lacking of emotion their lives seem to be. Another aspect that plays into this