Toads

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AS Level english (poetry) Mind Map on Toads, created by Jake Crossland on 02/04/2014.
Jake Crossland
Mind Map by Jake Crossland, updated more than 1 year ago
Jake Crossland
Created by Jake Crossland over 10 years ago
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Toads
  1. context
    1. poet - Philip Larkin
      1. born 1922
        1. Oxford graduate
          1. was a jazz critic and a librarian
            1. the no-nonsense, solitary Englishman who disliked fame
              1. said that deprivation for him was what daffodils were for Wordsworth
              2. time written - 1954
                1. LOTR published
                  1. first soap opera in UK
                2. literary techniques
                  1. half-rhyme
                    1. uncertainty
                      1. some structure
                        1. ABAB scheme
                        2. 'toad'
                          1. unwanted presence
                            1. in Paradise Lost, Satan disguised as a toad
                              1. hallucinogenic
                                1. metaphor for work
                                2. alliteration - 'lecturers, lispers,...'
                                  1. droning effect
                                    1. list goes on forever?
                                      1. continues into first line of stanza 4
                                      2. 'the stuff / that dreams are made on'
                                        1. direct quote from Shakespeare's The Tempest
                                          1. from Prospero's resignation speech - Larkin is resigning himself to reality
                                        2. similes - 'cold as snow' and 'as heavy as hard luck'
                                        3. theme of work
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