Please Hold Flashcards

1
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Voice of someone

A

Older

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2
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What kind of experience is it?

A

Real and current

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3
Q

Level of trust in the

A

Robot

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4
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Metaphor for

A

Smallness of the individual world that is faceless lacking in individuality

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5
Q

Form

A

Lines are short no rhyme scheme, repetition

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6
Q

‘This is the future’

A

Positive

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7
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‘As the present’

A

Undercut, stuck, jammed

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8
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‘Wonderful’

A

Fake friendliness, insincere, inappropriate

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9
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Language type

A

Colloquial

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10
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Repetition of

A

Wonderful

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11
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‘I scream’

A

Self deprecating humour

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12
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There is no

A

Reflectiveness

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13
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‘This is the future’

A

Ironic, snappy

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14
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‘Yes or no’

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Answer is closed - trapped in a system

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15
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‘My translator’

A

No options

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16
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‘No options in the guise of countless alternatives’

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Paradox

  • trapped in own mind
  • mechanical
17
Q

‘Eine kleine’

A

Motzart, peaceful

18
Q

‘He says’

A

Personification

19
Q

‘This is the future’

A

He is confused, thoughts mixed

20
Q

‘Please do what you’re told’

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All products of society are new for him

  • the last straw
  • frustrated about ageing
21
Q

‘Looting’

A

Take whatever you can and go

  • hyperbole
  • effect, extremity of frustration
22
Q

‘Please’

A

Fake like the wonderful and great

23
Q

Replies from Robot to man are symbolic

A

Of his confused brain

24
Q

The man becomes

A

Less overtly polite

25
Q

He is on

A

Hold all the time

26
Q

Repetitions in the poem

A

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