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Text 1- The Butcher's Shop
- Contexts of
production
- The writer is
expressing her
views about
eating meat and
horrors of her
childhood
- Political comment
suggesting to put
people off eating
meat, while not
overtly promoting
vergetarianism
- Set around the
'cuteness' of butcher's
shops int he 1950s
and 60s
- The writer is
expressing her
views about
eating meat and
horrors of her
childhood
- Audience is taken
from a childs story
book, but it seems
innapropriate for
that age group due
to the graphic
imagery.
- Form and Structure
- One
stanza
written in
free
verse
- Use the
second
person
prnoun of
'your'
- One
stanza
written in
free
verse
- Word Choice
- Lanugage from a
lexical field of
politics- suggests
a sense of
corruption from an
early age
- Graphical language
has been used to
shock the audience
such as 'soggy paper
parcel bleeds'
- Realistic but
shocking
descriptions of
the butchers
shops
- Enjambment used
to give extra
details, shows her
commenting on
society, she has a
strong opinoin
- Meat Lexical Field
- Lanugage from a
lexical field of
politics- suggests
a sense of
corruption from an
early age
- Imagery and Symbolism
- Stiff as Sunday
Manners reflects the 'old
'fashioned' time period
- 'The butcher
smiles a meaty
smile' the fact that
he is meaty
suggests he is
turning into an
animal himself
- 'Tacky sawdust clogs your
shoes', turns the humans in
the shop into animals, as
they are now in the sawdust
- Juxtaposing image, as they are separated by
plastic hedges- no longer in fields surrounded
by hedges. Very graphic and powerful
- Stiff as Sunday
Manners reflects the 'old
'fashioned' time period
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