Please Hold Flashcards
Voice of someone
Older
What kind of experience is it?
Real and current
Level of trust in the
Robot
Metaphor for
Smallness of the individual world that is faceless lacking in individuality
Form
Lines are short no rhyme scheme, repetition
‘This is the future’
Positive
‘As the present’
Undercut, stuck, jammed
‘Wonderful’
Fake friendliness, insincere, inappropriate
Language type
Colloquial
Repetition of
Wonderful
‘I scream’
Self deprecating humour
There is no
Reflectiveness
‘This is the future’
Ironic, snappy
‘Yes or no’
Answer is closed - trapped in a system
‘My translator’
No options
‘No options in the guise of countless alternatives’
Paradox
- trapped in own mind
- mechanical
‘Eine kleine’
Motzart, peaceful
‘He says’
Personification
‘This is the future’
He is confused, thoughts mixed
‘Please do what you’re told’
All products of society are new for him
- the last straw
- frustrated about ageing
‘Looting’
Take whatever you can and go
- hyperbole
- effect, extremity of frustration
‘Please’
Fake like the wonderful and great
Replies from Robot to man are symbolic
Of his confused brain
The man becomes
Less overtly polite
He is on
Hold all the time
Repetitions in the poem
Convey his entrapment within the phone menu, his feelings and responses emerge over the poem - irony, anger, frustration
