Assination Flashcards
Biography of poem
- black conscious and visited Africa
- violence of BLM
Title
Simple emotive word: Ambiguous= politically prominent
General structure
Irregular structure= irregular line length and surprising punctuation
=enhances moments of chaos after assignation and traumatic mood
Opening stanza
- lowercase letters: incomplete sentence dumped into situation and vauge
- two short sentences slows down pace= emphasises the significance
Diction: wild= chaotic
The throat neck
- vunerable
- Parenthesis : info that is relevant but not in understanding + indented= dramatic aside to shock
Punctuation &from everywhere
&= abbreviation of and to emphasise the abruptness of the poem
No space = urgency
:- introduces explanation of previous statement of list.
Paradoxical: a single bullet cam from everywhere. He took a fatal bullet but lots of attempts
Second stanza the motel…
Imagery- descriptions with diction of connections with vermin, derogatory to describe people= paints police as evil and corrupted. =swarming cockroaches
Increases in pace= longer length in sentences and enjambement = emphasises crowd of tightly packed attack of police
3rd stanza they came running…
Repetition: they came running - a significant detail as if they were attacking, symbolic detail. We don’t know who they is effective to view them for their actions and not give them benefit of the doubt.
Line breaks: slows down pace an forces reader to consider the detail and weight of that situation
King: pun-contextual marker put also emphasises authority and the speakers devotion. Extended: aside from poem: emphasise to separate king from the attack
Double hyphen: a broken en dash
all of them: suspicious
4th stanza As the king was going to fire back …
Absurdity+ fire back w/ what weapon. Paranoia and that King was threat
Repetition: absurdity that they did not do what they should
Line break:
Intention
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