poetry of departures Flashcards
2 ideas within poem
mesmerised by leaving society
vs
the cliche you will be when thinking abt freedom
first stanza
speaker hears a story
first stanza
speaker hears a story
fifth hand
passed around/gossip - truth is sensationalised/dramatises
vague and unreliable
epitaph
words spoken at a funeral - leaving society is irreversible and is smth u cannot recover from
he chucked up everything and just cleared off
italics - voice of society
audacious purifying elemental move
tricolon- hyperbolic adjectives
mocking the outcome of leaving
bold and powerful move
specially chosen junk
oxymoron
nothing is genuine - not even the commodities that are supposed to be personal
they are ultimately meaningless
the good books the good bed
monosyllabic language - emphasises mundanity of everyday life
“good” - highlights mundanity
my life, in perfect order
mocking his perfectly ordered life
attempts to live by an ideal life leaves him feeling trapped
oppressed by living by societal expectations
leaves me flushed and stirred
excited at the chance of freedom
then she undid her dress
take that you bastard
cliched sense of life gives him adrenaline - mocking tone
sober and industrious
idea of freedom keeps him focussed and grounded in restriction
books;china;a life
sentence placement - our lives amount to the material items we consume - result of conformity
reprehensibly perfect
oxymoron - he is not satisfied/impossible to have a perfect life
angry tone
resolution - he will continue w conformity but will always be dissatisfied
