MOD B earth hour quotes Flashcards
inky…
inky blue upon blue
inky blue upon blue technique
Utilising layering of visual imagery →representing the assumed clarity and physicality of the tangible world
the wing clatter of a typewriter technique
employs zoomorphic imagery
juxtaposes machine and nature
poem sentence structure effect
The poem’s second half is one long, complex sentence, contrasting the tangible world’s clarity with the complexity of the ‘counter-world’.
heaped …
heaped water crowded sky
tonal shift in cesura in line 8 effect
duality of man, with the ability for our bodies and souls to coexist as separate entities.
“heaped water, crowded sky” technique
vivid natural imagery
the wing …
the wing clatter of a typewriter
“we are feral at heart, unhouseled creatures” technique
anatomical/animalistic imagery
heart as the centre of human existence, thus emphasising the importance of embracing our intrinsic wildness
unhouseled creatures technique
positions humans as another organism in an ecosystem
caught in the flow of nature’s time, provoking readers to become aware of the absurdity of our materialistic and possession-oriented lifestyles as our existence is momentary while the earth is forever.
‘moonlit in our glass McMansions’ technique
satirical statement
provoked to reconsider their extravagant lifestyle, foolishly believing their damage can be mitigated through lone performative acts such as the Earth Hour movement.
moonlit in our…
‘moonlit in our glass McMansions’
backward children of a green original anti-Eden from which we’ve never been expelled. technique
biblical allusion
humanity has not fallen but are still children of God → capabilities to care for the earth
we are …
“we are feral at heart, unhouseled creatures”
backward children ….
backward children of a green original anti-Eden from which we’ve never been expelled.
radiance intro
Radiance delves into reconciling and coming to terms with our mortality, emphasising the scope and variation of epiphanies
unhouseled creatures technique
Pre-eucharistic allusions
schatzkammer and midden technique
treasure chamber + dumping ground in german
binary
schatz…
schatzkammer and midden
for some technique
extended repetition
vehicle to convey the possible religious answers to life
tobias the street….
“Tobias the street smart teen and his screwball dog”
“Tobias the street smart teen and his screwball dog” technique
biblical allusion
referencing the book of Tobit
implies otherworldly sense to quotidian symbols such as a vibrant teenager and his dog.
the silence they leave, in a bowl, in a book that speaks and may join us technique
Personification
use of juxtaposition against “silence” and “speaks”
ability for existence to transcend through worlds, the living and the dead
for some a …
for some a wound, some a gift
for some a wound, some a gift technique
juxtaposition
technique in recollection of starlings
scattered lineation
scattered lineation effect
reflects organic form of starling flight
natural element on a manufactured page, mimicking how the two worlds effortlessly bleed into each other.
clears a new…
“clears a new draft of sky, a clean sheet of daylight.”
“clears a new draft of sky, a clean sheet of daylight.” technique
extended metaphor of the writing process
implies the mystery of nature, provoking readers to wonder what causes thousands of individual birds to act as one, the same way writing as a result of the creative process has the ability for one text to speak to thousands of people and share a collective idea.
the silence…
the silence they leave in a bowl, in a book, that speaks and may join us
the mutinous…
“the mutinous struck infant”
“the mutinous struck infant” technique
recalling the start of the life cycle after his meditation on death
suddenly the pattern of couplets breaks as a representation of the break in the cycle of life as we are caught “smiling”
tranquillity of life an the inevitability of death
accommodating…
accommodating tomb’
accommodating tomb technique
juxtaposition
paradox of living in a schatzkammer that has been made into a midden
cautionary tone of earth hour effect
reader thinks beyond worldly desires
whether their body will lie in peaceful ground or under a wasteland full of the populations’ possessions
