Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass - Armitage
- Ideas
- joy of killing - objects a microcosm
- image of timelessness - always gender differences
- passive grass = feminine
- death and life intimately connected
- sexual violence
- human inclination towards violence
- Structure
- highly patterned and crafted - rich imagery
- replenished, harvest, resurrection
- lyrical towards end
- extensive use of sound - rhyme, alliteration, assonance
- adds personality, emotional and physical aspect
- Attitude/Tone
- musing
- conversational tone suggests confidence and self - righteousness - short and long sentences
- informal
- obnoxious
- Techniques
- extreme physical imagery / description
- personification, extended metaphor
- anatomical
- masculinity vs femininity
- inter-species, or phychological?
- chainsaw a proxy
- animalistic gender considerations
- metabolism
- microcosm: power dynamic between manmade objects and nature
- emphasise broader struggle externally