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Description
Mind Map by Louie Galea, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Louie Galea
almost 6 years ago
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Living Space
- Imtiaz Dharker
- Title
- It is not a home, just
a 'space'
- Ironic as there is little
space in these shacks
- It is not a home, just
a 'space'
- Context
- Other ID poems represent
different cultures
- ID was born in Pakistan but
raised in Scotland
- Other ID poems represent
different cultures
- Structure
- 3 stanzas
- Opens with sarcasm
- Small middle stanza as if
it has been squeezed in
- Final stanza centres around
her admiration for the people
- Mixed match line length with
enjambement make the poem feel
like the mixed matched slums
- 3 stanzas
- 'leans dangerously
towards the miraculous
- Implies her admiration and
astonishment at the structure
- Implies her admiration and
astonishment at the structure
- 'Nothing is flat or parallel'
- Contrast between the
western world's buildings
- Contrast between the
western world's buildings
- 'Nails clutch at open seams.'
- The nails are all that hold it together
and could break at any minute
- The nails are all that hold it together
and could break at any minute
- 'squeezed'
- Just about making enough to live from
- Just about making enough to live from
- 'slanted universe'
- The slanted shanty town is all they will ever know
- Metaphor for their unequal society and
the inequality of the rich and poor
- The slanted shanty town is all they will ever know
- 'Gathering light'
- Symbol of hope
- Symbol of hope
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