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Flashcards by Reuben Veysey-Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Reuben Veysey-Smith
over 9 years ago
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| Structure | All line beginnings are capital showing awe to the pike, all stanzas have 4 lines but 5-13 syllables connoting calm on the outside but not on the inside (the pond and pike!) |
| Pike, three inches long, perfect Pike in all parts, green tigering the gold. Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin. They dance on the surface among the flies. | Perfect from birth and crafted by God. symbol for perfect sea figure and royal connotations. Hyperbole of egg killers and dance is a metaphor for the hunt |
| Or move, stunned by their own grandeur, Over a bed of emerald, silhouette Of submarine delicacy and horror. A hundred feet long in their world. | Their arrogance and majestic and repetition of valuable pearls connotes royalty. Juxtaposed diction the pike is privileged and a guardian of his 'kingdom' |
| In ponds, under the heat-struck lily pads- Gloom of their stillness: Logged on last year’s black leaves, watching upwards. Or hung in an amber cavern of weeds | Lily pads sacrifice themselves for the pikes benefit, repetition of valuable gems connotes royalty also the pike is mysterious and collected |
| The jaws’ hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date: A life subdued to its instrument; The gills kneading quietly, and the pectorals. | Perfect for hunting and everything overall. Reflection on himself due to the fact the pike is symbol for having to fulfill expectation. Pectorals is a metaphor for strength |
| Three we kept behind glass, Jungled in weed: three inches, four, And four and a half: fed fry to them- Suddenly there were two. Finally one | Jungled could show mystery, representating an anecdote for when the pikes killed eachother |
| With a sag belly and the grin it was born with. And indeed they spare nobody. Two, six pounds each, over two feet long High and dry and dead in the willow-herb- One jammed past its gills down the other’s gullet: The outside eye stared: as a vice locks- The same iron in this eye Though its film shrank in death. | When two pikes killed each other because one swam in the others jaws, could be a reflection of how violence kills both parties. Vice an iron show bravery and connote respect |
| A pond I fished, fifty yards across, Whose lilies and muscular tench Had outlasted every visible stone Of the monastery that planted them- Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast | Hyperbole of size to create a sense of massiveness. Monastery could be a sacred, childish hyperbole of England shows nostalgia |
| But silently cast and fished With the hair frozen on my head For what might move, for what eye might move. The still splashes on the dark pond, Owls hushing the floating woods Frail on my ear against the dream Darkness beneath night’s darkness had freed, That rose slowly toward me, watching. | Antithesis of previous comment about not fishing there, parallelism heightens surreal world. Oxymoron of 'still splash' Visual imagery helps show the surreal world, it ends on a cliffhanger |
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