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Mindmap von Jake Crossland, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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Toads
- context
- poet - Philip Larkin
- born 1922
- Oxford graduate
- was a jazz critic
and a librarian
- the no-nonsense,
solitary
Englishman who
disliked fame
- said that deprivation for
him was what daffodils
were for Wordsworth
- born 1922
- time written - 1954
- LOTR published
- first soap opera in UK
- LOTR published
- poet - Philip Larkin
- literary techniques
- half-rhyme
- uncertainty
- some structure
- ABAB scheme
- uncertainty
- 'toad'
- unwanted presence
- in Paradise
Lost, Satan
disguised as
a toad
- hallucinogenic
- metaphor for work
- unwanted presence
- alliteration -
'lecturers,
lispers,...'
- droning effect
- list goes on forever?
- continues into first
line of stanza 4
- droning effect
- 'the stuff / that dreams are made on'
- direct quote from
Shakespeare's
The Tempest
- from Prospero's
resignation speech -
Larkin is resigning
himself to reality
- from Prospero's
resignation speech -
Larkin is resigning
himself to reality
- direct quote from
Shakespeare's
The Tempest
- similes - 'cold as snow'
and 'as heavy as hard
luck'
- half-rhyme
- theme of work
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