Out of the Bag (PotD)

Question 1

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All of us came in Doctor Kerlin’s bag

Answer 1

naievity + innocence of opening line conveys the speaker as a child

Question 2

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he’d reappear to wash

Answer 2

magical qualities - Dr Kerlin

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Then like a hypnotist Unwinding us, he’d wind the instruments

Answer 3

Kerlin has complete power and control
- having magicical qualities give power over the children

Question 4

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fur-lined leather collar
of waistcoat satin
To be squired and silk-lined

Answer 4

luxorious materials converys Dr Kerlin comes from another, more affulent world

Question 5

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Hyperborean

Answer 5

Greek mythology
- lives a perfect existance

Question 6

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swabbed porcelein
chill of tiles
chrome surgery tools

Answer 6

Semantic field
- cold + sterile
- defined by sterile/ medical environment
- highlights an idea of faith vs medicine

Question 7

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Peter Levi
Asclepius

Answer 7

• action shifts from childlike wonder (however gruesome) to one of intellect.
• explores the relationship between religion and healing

Question 8

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Says poeta doctus Graves

Answer 8

poet + soldier
- shifts to a more knowledgeable adult perspective

Question 9

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A site of incubation

Answer 9

ties modern and classical ideas of healing

Question 10

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finger dot-faced men//

//With button-spots in a straight line down their fronts

Answer 10

childish imagery through children drawings
- contrast of different perspectives
- chilidish vs Latin

Question 11

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the undarkening door

Answer 11

Dr J connected to hygiene
- a modern represenation of cleanliness and healing vs the previous ncient representation (at Lourdes)