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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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| Question | Answer |
| Structure | For a poem about precision it is strange there is no rhythm, metre or line length showing the potential chaotic nature of what the planners are doing |
| They plan. They build. All spaces are gridded, filled with permutations of possibilities. The buildings are in alignment with the roads which meet at desired points linked by bridges all hang | Repetition of they presents an sinister nature of the omnipotent planners. Extended metaphor of geometrical lexis presents the value of mathematical precision |
| in the grace of mathematics. They build and will not stop. Even the sea draws back and the skies surrender. | Grace is antithesis and connotes towards potential admiration line 2 has only monosyllables showing ruthlessness and lack of creativity Nature is personified as a withering force |
| They erase the flaws, the blemishes of the past, knock off useless blocks with dental dexterity. All gaps are plugged with gleaming gold. The country wears perfect rows of shining teeth | Here we have an extended metaphor for dentistry because it presents a sterile environment The gleaming gold could be a symbol for humans ideas and desires of perfection Alliteration of dental dexterity and gleaming gold show a melodic tone which is an inter textual reference to the hypnosis |
| Anaesthesia, amnesia, hypnosis. They have the means. They have it all so it will not hurt, so history is new again. The piling will not stop. The drilling goes right through the fossils of last century. | The first line is about numbing pain, forgetting and then being manipulated, along with history being new it is a symbol for the way this process is a continuum over time. The inter textual reference of will not stop shows how it is a recurring process, all construction starts with destruction |
| But my heart would not bleed poetry. Not a single drop to stain the blueprint of our past's tomorrow. | Melodramatic tone shows how maybe its not that bad? caesura shows a change in perspective The past and tomorrow are related and know present shows how it is a view on both of them, how we are pulled between moving forward or not |
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