Comparisons Flashcards
Belfast Confetti: (Structure)
Where am _ ____?
Why ____ I _____?
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS
Where am I going?
Why can’t I escape
-Confusion of narrator
Belfast Confetti: (Meaning)
Riots in Northern Ireland during ____’s
Confetti juxtaposes ____ _________
E_______ of the title describes objects used as ______ by protesters
Riots in Northern Ireland during 1970’s
Confetti juxtaposes happy occasions
Euphemism of the title describes objects used as missiles by protesters
Belfast Confetti: (Imagery)
Raining __________ _____
_________ line
________ on the map
IMAGERY OF PUNCTUATION Raining exclamation marks - breakdown of communication Hyphenated line (gunshot) Asterisk on the map (explosion)
Belfast Confetti: (Language)
____ end _____
Crimea _____
ENJAMBMENT -syntax Dead end street Crimea street - break up of people/troops - poem becomes difficult to read
Exposure: (Structure)
What ___ __ ____ here?
__ __ ____ ____ dying?
RHETORICAL QUESTIONS What are we doing here? Is is that we're dying? - plight of men - unholy situation
Exposure: (Meaning)
__17 winter during WWI
Written from _______ _______
Owen suffered from P_S_
1917 winter during WWI
Written from personal experience
Owen suffered from PTSD
Exposure: (Imagery)
Twitching _______ of men in its _______
HORRIFIC PHRASES/DESCRIPTIONS
Twitching agonies of men in its brambles
- wind sounds like screaming of men
- wire in now part of nature as it has altered his view on natural setting
Exposure: (Language)
___ _______ h________s
REPETITION
But nothing happens
- emphasises sheer length of the winter
Poison Tree: (Structure)
Friend - ___ - Foe - ____
AABB RHYME SCHEME
Friend - End - Foe - Grow
- easy to read, difficult to understand
- juxtaposing very complex human emotions he is describing
Poison Tree: (Meaning)
My ___ out______ _______ the ____
My foe outstretched beneath the tree
- consequence of being angry (become poisonous)
Poison Tree: (Imagery)
apple _____
_____ _____
BIBLICAL ALLEGORY Apple bright - Garden of Eden and Tree of Knowledge Apple stole (from the garden) - a consequence followers after consuming the apple
Poison Tree: (Language)
And I ______ ___ _____
And I ______ __ with _____
And ___ soft delightful _____
REPETITION OF AND
And I water’d it with fears
And I sunned it with smiles
And with delightful wiles
- poem seems like a verse for children w/ moral
- a difficult message wrapped up in form and structure
Half-Caste: (Structure)
Wha __ mean
half caste ______/
ENJAMBMENT Wha yu mean - creates a stereotype that the race is uneducated - reader confronted and is ashamed Half caste weather/ - incorrect punctuation - emphasises racism's stupidity
Half-Caste: (Meaning)
Agard was born in __49 with a Caribbean father and a _________ mother.
Explaining “half-caste” meaning half ____
Agard was born in 1949 with a Caribbean father and a Portuguese mother.
Explaining “half-caste” meaning half pure
Half-Caste: (Language)
Half caste ______
Half caste till dem ____cast
METAPHOR Half caste canvas Half caste till dem overcast - makes the poem a kind on parable - teaches use art, music and weather to explain topics to young children (racism is immature)
