Poems Flashcards
Quotes tissue
- paper that let’s the light shine through
- sun shines through// daylight breaks through
- fly our lives like paper kites
- turned into your skin
- transparent with attention
Key points tissue
- enjambement and free verse show lack of power humans hold
Paper that let’s the light shine through
Religion/God’s power
Link to Dharker “Muslim calvanist”
Sun shines through
Daylight breaks through
- nature has all the power
- Light imagery
Fly our lives like paper kites
- simile- links to money
- fragility of life
Turned into your skin
- single line stanza - fragility
- direct address - futility
Transparent with attention.
- repeated “transparent” - criticising those in power
- full stop- emphasises wider message
Soti quotes
- we just sit tight
- exploding comfortably
- bombarded, blasts, salvo, strafes
- spits like a tame cat turned savage
- strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear
Soti kp
- long sentences, enjambment - constant force of storm
- second meaning - suggests dispute in Ireland
- force of nature shown
We just sit tight
Sense of community
Helpless tone
Exploding comfortably
Oxymoron
Colloquial language
Bombarded, blast, salvo, strafes
Semantic field of war imagery
Violent adjectives
Splits like a tame cat turned savage
Simile
Strange it is a huge nothing we fear
Collective
Oxymoron
Indefinite article
Eric
- early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
- you don’t understand. You never did. You never even tried.
- she wasn’t the usual sort
- (involuntarily) my God!
- why shouldn’t they try for higher wages?
- I hate these fat old tarts
- (suddenly guffaws)
- I insisted- it seems
- I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty
- you killed her- and the child
- early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
- naivety
- repetition
- symbolic of redemption as Priestly’s mouthpiece
Act 1 - disjointed, unsure, young and irresponsible
Interrogation- trying to distance himself
Act 3- example of accepting greater responsibility
I was in that state where a chap easily turns nasty
- euphemism
- shift from 1st to 3rd person
I insisted - it seems
- Physically overwhelmed Eva
- cannot recall exactly what happened
[Suddenly guffaws]
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