Makijng peace

Question 1

Author

Answer 1

Denise Levertov “Making Peace”

Question 2

main idea

Answer 2

peace will not appear out of nowhere and needs to be carefully and deliberately crafted. extended mataphor

Question 3

“imagination of peace…familiar, intense imagination of disaster.”

Answer 3

justaposition suggests there’s more to pace than simply the absence of war, and that society needs to see more good rather than “familiar, intense imagination of disaster.”

Question 4

“grammar of justice, syntax of mutual aid.”

Answer 4

to suggest that humans need to change the basis of our thinking, Levertov uses parallelism to present the idea that society needs a complete paradigm shift and to rebuild our values around stuff the way language is built off stuff.

Question 5

“We have… we begin … we speak.”

Answer 5

collective inclusive pronouns in a tricolon structure … amplifying the message that no-one can build peace on their own and building intensity.

Question 6

“a vibration of light – facets of the forming crystal.”

Answer 6

visual imagery forms a metaphor and symbolism in there somewhere too … to suggest that if everyone works together for it, peace can slowly be achieved, the same way a crystal slowly forms.

Question 7

type of poem

Answer 7

conceptual

Question 8

my point

Answer 8

poerty can influence reader and their opinions and has the power to enact change.