Giuseppe- Poetry Flashcards
1
Q
“My Uncle Guiseppe told me”
A
- Guiseppe
- Unreliable quality as it is second hand, the narrator isn’t sure.
- story telling, important in many ways. Potentially a lie afterwards to what said, they could cover it up.
2
Q
“The only captive mermais in the world”
A
- Guiseppe
- Mermaids don’t exist, dehumanizing her?
- They are justifying what wrong they did and that they are going to eat her.
3
Q
“She was simple”
A
- Guiseppe
- She may not have understood what every one else did, picking off the “weaker”.
4
Q
“They took a ripe golden roe”
A
- Guiseppe
- Fish eggs
- She may be pregnant, but also comparing to an animal.
- “Golden” valuable, but they are not giving that value.
5
Q
“This was proof that she was just a fish”
A
- Guiseppe
- Dehumanizing
- The “ripe golden roe” shows that they think that nothing about her is valuable to classify her as human.
6
Q
“Anyway an egg is not a child”
A
- Guiseppe
- Proof that she may be pregnant and that she could be valued but was “simple”.
- Others have control over her body, questioning whether her pregnancy was willing or not even though it is not yet a “child”.
7
Q
“She, it,”
A
- Guiseppe
- Correcting themselves, the facts may not always be trusted, not wholly believing it themselves.
8
Q
“Or so they said”
A
- Guiseppe
- Colloquial language
- Not believing themselves.
9
Q
“She was only a fish”
A
- Guiseppe
- Repetition of “Fish”
- As if they are wanting to believe it
- Constantly dehumanising her throughout.
10
Q
“But she screamed like a woman in terrible fear”
A
- Guiseppe
- pronoun “She”
- Acknowledging that she was a human, not a “fish” or “human”.
- They are keeping negative human aspects.
11
Q
“Then they put her head and her hands in a box for burial”
A
- Guiseppe
- They are hiding the only way of identification.
- Some sort of respect to her body.
12
Q
“Someone tried to take her wedding ring”
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- Guiseppe
- She still belongs to someone, even when she is dead and that ownership extends to how and why she dies.
13
Q
“They said a large fish had been found on the beach”
A
- Guiseppe
- “They said” suggests an air of unreliability with word of mouth and stories that are inherited
- “Had been found” As if she hasn’t existed before this happened.
