Zusammenfassung der Ressource
'Give' by Simon Armitage
- STRUCTURE
- CAESURA
- "You give me tea. That's big of you"
- Makes a dramatic pause. Gives listener time to feel good and then feel guilty when speaker says 'that's big of you'
- CONTRASTS
- 'You give me tea...I'm on my knees
- Emphasises how different speaker's life is
- RHYME
- rhyming couplet at start gives light-hearted feel but no set rhyme scheme - shows his life is unpredicatable? Or that he doesn't quite fit in?
- Dramatic monologue
- LANGUAGE
- Direct address - personal
- Ironic tone
- "dear"
- "That's big of you"
- Biblical imagery
- "Frankincense" / "myrrh"
- Jesus was born with nothing, just like the speaker has nothing
- Lexical field of 'riches'
- Command verb in title
- Pun
- "just change"
- double meaning of asking you to change your attitude and to give coins
- THEMES
- identity - loss of identity
- being treated differently
- fear of being judged
- IDEAS
- could be a love poem?
- moral message?