Please Hold

Question 1

Voice of someone

Answer 1

Older

Question 2

What kind of experience is it?

Answer 2

Real and current

Question 3

Level of trust in the

Answer 3

Robot

Question 4

Metaphor for

Answer 4

Smallness of the individual world that is faceless lacking in individuality

Question 5

Form

Answer 5

Lines are short no rhyme scheme, repetition

Question 6

‘This is the future’

Answer 6

Positive

Question 7

‘As the present’

Answer 7

Undercut, stuck, jammed

Question 8

‘Wonderful’

Answer 8

Fake friendliness, insincere, inappropriate

Question 9

Language type

Answer 9

Colloquial

Question 10

Repetition of

Answer 10

Wonderful

Question 11

‘I scream’

Answer 11

Self deprecating humour

Question 12

There is no

Answer 12

Reflectiveness

Question 13

‘This is the future’

Answer 13

Ironic, snappy

Question 14

‘Yes or no’

Answer 14

Answer is closed - trapped in a system

Question 15

‘My translator’

Answer 15

No options

Question 16

‘No options in the guise of countless alternatives’

Answer 16

Paradox

• trapped in own mind
• mechanical

Question 17

‘Eine kleine’

Answer 17

Motzart, peaceful

Question 18

‘He says’

Answer 18

Personification

Question 19

‘This is the future’

Answer 19

He is confused, thoughts mixed

Question 20

‘Please do what you’re told’

Answer 20

All products of society are new for him

• the last straw
• frustrated about ageing

Question 21

‘Looting’

Answer 21

Take whatever you can and go

• hyperbole
• effect, extremity of frustration

Question 22

‘Please’

Answer 22

Fake like the wonderful and great

Question 23

Replies from Robot to man are symbolic

Answer 23

Of his confused brain

Question 24

The man becomes

Answer 24

Less overtly polite

Question 25

He is on

Answer 25

Hold all the time

Question 26

Repetitions in the poem

Answer 26

Convey his entrapment within the phone menu, his feelings and responses emerge over the poem - irony, anger, frustration