Common Module (Gulliver) Flashcards
“I’ll Kick your walls to bits, I’ll die scratching a tunnel”
The poem begins as the action begins. Adapted from the story of Gulliver Travels, that is were the context comes from.
Slessor uses a first person perspective as a means of dramatic monologue.
“If you’ll do me the honour of a dungeon, Anything but this tranny of sinews”
The poem takes a dramatic turn of emotion and energy, from anger, aggression and violence, to lacking motivation.
Connotation of oppression that arises from the reference of “Tyranny of sinews”
Enjambment establishes a sense of continued request or begging.
“Tied up with stuff too cheap, and strings too many”
Shows the nature of many small pressures keeping him tethered by force of number.
“Love, Hunger, Drunkenness, neuralgia, debt”
Cumulation shows the different things that the ‘hairs / strings’ represent, being all the external and internal influences that can weigh people down.
