Death of a Naturalist Flashcards
1
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“Miss Walls” “daddy frog” “mammy frog”
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School, child-like language, young person (narrator)
2
Q
“And how he croaked and how the mammy frog laid hundreds of eggs”
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Sexual connotations, skurted over, age of innocence
3
Q
“yellow in the sun and brown in rain”
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Pathetic fallasy, metaphor, changing, sun=positive, rain=negative, foreboding, links to the title
4
Q
“obscene threats”
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Disturbing for the narrator
5
Q
“Poised like mud grenades”
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War-like, imagery
6
Q
“blunt heads farting”
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Young writing, boy-like language
7
Q
“I sickened”
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Feels physically sick, doesn’t see nature positively anymore, his interest/love for nature had died
8
Q
Compare to?
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Afternoons
