Assisi Flashcards
Slumped like a half filled sack
Connotations of despair
Half filled - Unable to prop himself up
Tiny twisted legs
alliteration draws attention to the fragile doll-like description which is continued with the idea of sawdust leaking
Has the advantage of not being dead yet
Use of irony to show the only thing going for the beggar is that he is alive
Main themes of Assisi
Contrast between rich and poor
Hypocrisy
Eyes wept pus
Repulsive image of sickness and sadness demonstrating the poets anger at this hypocrisy
Said Gracie in a voice as sweet as a child’s
Sweet and innocent
Contrasts inner beauty of dwarf with his exterior
How clever it was of Giotto
Condensing
Sarcastic
I understood the explanation and the cleverness
Irony
Emphasises that it is easy to understand the paintings but highlights the lack of understanding of the beggars plight
Clucking
Suggests chicken with tiny brains
Sounds of tourists agreeing absent mindedly with the preist
A rush of tourists clucking contentedly fluttered after him
Tourists are satisfied with a superficial your and are ignorant to the meaning behind the paintings and the churches morals
Alliteration to emphasise point
The ruined temple outside
Body is a temple
Dwarf is externally damaged
Dismissed by tourists
Refers to him as a thing making him seem less human and less dignified as he is seen by the tourists
Hands on backwards
Simplistic, childlike explanation of his deformity
From which sawdust might run
Puppets used to be stuffed with sawdust so this creates the idea of him looking slumped in a heap like a loose puppet
Non living
“Running” has connotations of draining energy
Talker with birds
Shows he was close to nature
Thee three tiers of churches
Like a wedding cake
A priest “explained”
Word choice
Active verb
Priest in charge
Clever
Word choice
Connotations of sarcasm from the poet and pride form the priest
… The goodness
Sentence structure
Word at end of line to emphasise it
Understood
Echoes goodness
Connotations of saw through
Cleverness
Echoes goodness
Sarcastic
Criticising
Fluttered
Scattered
Clucking contentedly
Extended metaphor comparing the tourists to brainless chickens agreeing with priest and not seeing true picture
Back was higher than his head
Lopsided mouth
Brutal language to covey the extremity of his deformities
Priest
The priest is more concerned about the church than the beggar which is ironic because st Francis (who the Church was built in honour of) would have helped the beggar yet the man who greatly admires st Francis’s Church does not act on his morals
Contrast between church and dwarf
They are juxtaposed to highlight what is wrong with the situation
