John Mouldy Flashcards
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Form?
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Child’s perspective
•enhances sadness of homeless man alone as only spotted by child
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Meaning?
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Homeless man living in a cellar who is spotted by a boy.
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Language?
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- “spied”= keep a distance, accidentally found him
- oxymoron between “smiling” and “alone”= happy to be dead, ostracised from society
- “rats”= dirty, associated with scurrying between sewers
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Imagery?
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- title= “John” generic name, “moudly” description of cellar; represents all the tramps of society
- “Dog-star”= constellation which is isolated from other stars
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Rhyme scheme?
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ABCB
•sense of closure of each stanza= reflects closure of tramps life
•^ at peace with his loneliness
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Tone?
Themes?
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- has no material objects, all are associated with dirt= impoverished tone
- theme of distance from society= “twenty steps of stone”
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Structure?
Sounds?
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- repetition of 1st stanza= cyclical structure represents the unchanging isolation of homeless people
- ^ encourages reflection of who we outcast
- sibilance= harsh sounds, emphasises certain words
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Links?
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- AJ= singling out individual/cyclical structure
