Basking Shark Flashcards
What are the main themes of Basking Shark?
Evolution and questioning humanity.
“To stub an oar where none should be” what does this mean?
He’s far out at sea and has hit something.
What does the first line in the poem do?
Set up where MacCaig is
What happens in the poem.
MacCaig going fishing out at sea when he stubs his oar on a basking shark.
What does the rhetorical question in the quote “who’s the monster?” mean?
The rhetorical question make you stop to think about whether or not we’re always in the right or if we’re actually monsters.
What is the tone serious in “is a thing that happened too often to me”
No but it is genuine
“On a sea tin-tacked rain” means what?
It’s raining while he’s out at sea
On the last line what technique is used in it?
A metaphor.
“He displaced more than water” what does this mean?
That the shark didn’t just leave itself.
What else did the shark leave?
It left the chain of thoughts that MacCaig had
