comparison Flashcards
What do COMH and london both do
they both convey ideas of how humankind’s greed of power affects the lives of many people
where is agard from
guyana
bandage
‘bandage up me eye with me own history’
blind
blind me to my own identity
extended metaphor
gruesome image of torture
connotations
helpless and uncertainty ‘blind’
physical torment
better than hiding him from his ‘own identity’
evokes
deep sense of sorrow and grief from reader
london government
immoral
mind-forg’d manacles
attatched to citizens like prisoners
link
agard restrained from his identity
citizens=
hopeless prisoners to the monarchy and ‘blackening church’
proletariat
physical and emotional suffering=grave and potent effect of mankind’s corrupting power
manacles of identity
serious
what is more potent and grave effect
physical and emotional suffering of the proletariat in london is a much more grace and potent effect of humankind’s corrupting power
london structure
abab rhyming scheme, iambic tretameter
what does london structure hint
they are inescapable, prisoners, in a cycle
cyclical structure
start with weakness and woe, end with curse
start of three verse
8 syllables
end of three verse
7 syllables
proletariat remain?
married to death ‘marriage hearse’
structure of comh
dramatic monologue, physical separation of identities/history, indent para conveyed by diff fonts
para 1
humankind’s greed of power
para 2
similar- both restrained
para 3
different COMH gains power
para 4
diff structure
