Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Poems Of The Decade
- Material
- Language
- "My mother was the hanky queen"- Links to
the theme of quality in the days of
hankerchiefs.
- "dried-up hankies fell in love and mated"- Imagery of birth-
metaphors for childer. Oldern day children= hankerchief, modern
children=pocket tissue
- "Nostalgia only makes me old."- links to imagery of tissues as they
become old and shrivelled too quickly.
- "When handy packs are 50p?"- Rhetorical question=
Sarcastic tone- nowadays we buy things for the
cheapness.
- Form
- Structure
- Rhyme is sometimes half-rhyme
- Steady rhythm
- Themes
- Nostalgia
- Eat Me- Patience Agbabi
- Language
- Metaphor- "His bread fruit" "His desert Island after shipwreck" "or a beached
wale after shipwreck"- she wants to escape the company of the house she is
stuck in.
- Repetition of "fat"- what she sees herself as.
- Simile "Hips judder like a juggernaut" suggests that she has sacrificed her life for him.
- Short sentence "Didn't even taste
it"- she's eating for the sake of it,
not even hungry.
- Form
- Chronological order
- even amount of stanzas
- enjambment could suggest how
she constantly eats
- Structure
- Repetition of her weight, she always
seems depressed, so repetition of her
depression in each stanza
- Rough rhyme schemes which shows
her thoughts aren't very clear
- Themes
- Power- he's dominating her
but she overcomes him in
the end
- Claustrophobia
- Gender- the idea of mean
having power but by the
end it is overthrown
- Chainsaw Versus The Pampass Grass
- Language
- Personification "juices ran from its edges"-
"juices" could symbolise oil. "Ran" could suggest
that it is overused and broken.
- "Gunned the trigger"- implies
that it has the power of a gun
- "No gearing up or getting to speed"
suggests that the chainsaw is old and
violent and it isn't shown to work properly.
- "Knocked back a quarter
pint of engine oil"- overused
and broken, drunken action.
- Repetition of "the chainsaw" shows how the chainsaw
is the most dominant
- "Drumming in its heart"- implies it has
the desire to kill something.
- Themes
- Nature vs Mankind
- men v women
- chainsaw V
pampass
grass
- Structure
- Dramatic Monologue
- chronological order
- 1st person
- Form
- lyrical language and everyday
language to show nature V mankind
- A Leisure Centre Is Also A Temple Of Learning
- Language
- "We twelve are the chorus"- the older women,
commenting on what's happening, Jesus' 12
disciples=worshipping the young girl
- Form
- Structure
- Themes