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