Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Assisi
- Themes
- hypocricy
of the
church
- beauty is
but skin
deep
- the plight
of the
disabled
- Imagery
- Dwarf
- demoralising
non-medical
term
- Like a half
filled sack
- dehumanizing,
described and
inaniminate
- she/her
- surprising
gender
chage
- Clucking
Contentedly
- compares
the tourists
to chickens
- Tiny Twisted Legs
- Hands on Backwards
- Structure
- 3 Stanzas
- Stanza 2 -
The Priests
- Two sentences.
Smug and
hypocritical.
Sarcasm used by
the poet.
- Stanza 1 -
The Beggar
- Long, complex
sentences. Listing of
beggars description.
Brutal Language.
Harsh but Vivid.
- Stanza 3 -
The Tourists
- Two sentences.
Starting with the
tourists and
contrasting back
to the Beggar.
- Circular
Structure
- Beggar - Priests -
Tourists - Beggar
- Juxtaposition
- Church
- 'Beautiful' on the Outside.
'Ugly' on the Inside.
- Beggar
- 'Ugly' on the Outside.
'Beautiful' on the Inside.