Living Space - structure

Question 1

how does the poem Living space begin?

Answer 1

Dharker being sarcastic towards the negative views of the slums.
use of caesuras and end-stopped, short sentences create a disappointed, dissatisfied worried tone

Question 2

what does the middle stanza in the poem living space represent?

Answer 2

the small ‘living space’ the people have to use as the stanza is ‘squeezed’ into the middle of the poem

Question 3

how does the poem living space end?

Answer 3

with Dharker’s admiration of the people who live in the slums and their positive attitudes towards their negative circumstances

Question 4

what is the language like in stanza 1?

Answer 4

caesura, send stopped and short sentences create a dissatisfied, disappointed, worried tone as the architecture is not symmetrical; off balance, crooked, unstable

Question 5

volta in poem?

Answer 5

positive mood change in stanza 2

Question 6

language used in stanza 3

Answer 6

dark/light imagery
adjective - inequality, world injustice (‘slanted universe’)