Captain Of Form Team- D Flashcards
Themes-captain of the for team
-Time
-disappointment
-change
About- captain
-dramatic monologue
-narrow actor is a disillusioned man who looks back nostalgically at a time when he was the captain of his form team
-since this time his life has been disappointing and boorish
-starts with joy of youth and ends with angry disappointment at adulthood
“I lived in a kind of fizzing hope”
-onomatopoeia
-reflects the childhood he had which was full of excitement
- however something that fizzes will eventually flatten, speaker subconsciously recognising this hope an excitement was temporary and will eventually disappear.
“No snags”
-minor sentence
-ironic as there is snags in the speakers subsequent life after his time as the captain
“The Nile rises in April”
-speaker remembers facts from the competitions
-however these facts are now useless in his everyday life and are now even a barrier to him being able to relate to the present
“The clever smell of my satchel” “correct” “ i can give you the B side”
Remembers himself being right
-pleased with himself and his cleverness
*hypallage he is clever, the smell evokes memories “clever” tells us he’s pleased with himself and hints he is a scholar
Views himself in high regard
“I sped down Dyke Hill, no hands”
-representing how life will go down hill from here, the journey of life
-he is not holding on showing he’s not worried about the possible consequences, care free
“In my prize shoes up Churchill way, up Nelson drive”
-the streets names that come to mind are all famous leaders
-like only he is aware of his own fame and thinks of himself as these, hoping he will be something like them.
“I want it back”
-statement could not be anymore clearer, he wants to return to this time
-admits he yearns for a lost past
-Volta of the poem, tone shifts from comedic and optimistic to pathetic and desperate
“My name was red on Lucille Greens jotter. I smiled”
Recalls being popular with girls
He was a charmer
“I smiled as wide as a child who went missing”
-assonance
-his innocence is lost his youth gone
-Ominous
- his child self has been kidnapped by adulthood
“Stale wife”
-us as readers now lose sympathy
-his bitterness shines through
-contradiction of how life used to be “fizzing”
“My thick kids wince”
-assonance
-they are embarrassed of him
-he doesn’t think much of them because they are not as smart as him
-strained relationships
“Name the Prime Minister of Rhodesia” “how many florins in a pound?”
-old currency which no longer exists
-his knowledge is now old and irrelevant
- the questions show what he once was and is stuck in the past
-ends on an obsolete coin, sad pathetic note.
Context- captain
“Churchill, nelson” - names of streets if Duffy home town, Stafford
