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Post 2000s Flashcards

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how is the opening stanza of Eat Me misleading?

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presented as a birthday cake

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what does the structure of Eat Me represent?

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tercet structures - strict regime of the feeder?

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What does Agbabi’s work focus on?

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the idea of an ‘outsider’

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what does East Me’s rhyme scheme mimic?

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ABA
claustrophobia

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what disruption to the structure of Eat Me makes the reader uncomfortable?

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each stanza is end stopped, until the final stanza, which is end stopped twice.

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what is the effect of the anaphora in Eat Me?

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resentful tone, increased pace

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what can Chainsaw be viewed as?

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a metaphor for the Gulf War

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what does the title of Chainsaw connotate?

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an extreme response to a minor issue, gender power dynamics

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“it seemed an unlikely match” - Chainsaw.
what are the connotations?

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pre-determined outcome, fruitlessness

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what does the irregular structure of Chainsaw connotate?

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threat and unpredictability

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what does the enjambment in Chainsaw connotate?

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fluidity of destruction

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what form does Lammas Hireling take?

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dramatic monologue ballad

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what is the Lammas Hireling?

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a Christian festival, celebrating new beginnings where farmers go to the local village to hire new workers

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what does the Lammas Hireling explore?

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transgressions of the boundaries between real and fake, animal and human, guilty and innocence

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what is the pronoun use in Lammas Hireling significant?

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the theoretical relationship of “i” and “he”

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what is the “elf-shot” and “half crowns” references in the Lammas Hireling?

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elf shot - pain in a localised area due to elves shooting you
silver bullets

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what is Giuseppe focussed around?

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an extended metaphor for WWII, describes the lengths that people will go to justify dehumanisation

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what is the symbolism of the mermaid in Giuseppe?

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she is mostly human, but society views her as subhuman, as they did to groups like Jews, homosexuals, disabled and Traveller groups in society

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what is significant about the pronouns in Giuseppe?

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“it” - guilt and plays on consciousness, mirrors a tension between wanting to dehumanise her, but the moral implications

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what is significant about the use of a mermaid in Giuseppe?

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child-like
we are a product of our society, this thing of childish wonder has been perverted

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what was significant about the response to the mermaid in Giuseppe?

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all men

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what is noticeable about the first stanza of the gun?

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shaped like a gun
gets a response later in the poem

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what narrator is used in the gun?

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omniscient - feels like a warning from personal experience

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“she bought her own; i never did” - Material
what is the effect of the caesura?

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to draw a distinction between her and her mother

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what is the effect of the enjambment in the Lammas Hireling?

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rapid flow of speech
mimics readers’ confusion

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what is the effect of the Lammas Hireling using differing sentence types and lengths?

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tones of confusion
erratic narrator

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The Lammas Hireling uses anaphora “and” frequently
what is the effect of this?

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story-telling - fantasy and unrealistic
an the narrator be trusted?

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what is the effect of the oxymoron “light from the dark lantern” in the Lammas Hireling?

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metaphor - lack of clarity on the situation

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what is the structure of Giuseppe?

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free verse
tone of a confession

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Giuseppe’s lack of rhythm and rhyme indicate what?

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mimics spontaneous spoken speak, adds a personal tone that is removed from the title (“uncle Giuseppe”)

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what is the effect of the enjambment in Giuseppe?

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free flow of thought contrasted by caesura of reluctance of the confession

32
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what is the context of the author of Material?

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was a scholar of Christopher Marlowe - some believe him to be the author of Shakespeare’s plays, and links to the handkerchief in Othello and this poem

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each stanza but the fifth in Material is end-stopped.

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traditional social structure disrupted by the one example of enjambment

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Out of the Bag follows which structure?

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tercets except 1 1 line stanza. mimics broken thoughts, needs piecing together to be understood

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what is significant about the section length in Out of the Bag?

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childhood section is larger than the other 2, most significant impact

36
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what is the allusion in Out of the Bag title?

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lets the cat out of the bag - speaker is learning

37
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how does Out of the Bag create flow?

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free verse
lack of rhyme , enjambed

38
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what context surrounds Giuseppe’s author?

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he is on the autistic spectrum, so focuses a lot on the concept of outsiders

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what is notable about the structure of an Easy Passage?

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one long stanza, free verse - fluidity of the passage OR as a daunting block of text

40
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how is the passage indicated in an Easy Passage?

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the entire poem only having 5 sentences

41
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what is the significance of the volta in the Easy Passage?

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rhetorical question - innocence to experience

42
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what is significant about Genetics’ rhyme scheme?

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final word of each stanza rhymes with first word of the next
may be argued as forced bc of rep of some words - strained relationships between parents

43
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what is the structure of Genetics?

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enjambement - mimics freedom though a diary entry
dramatic monologue - speaker embodies a voice to speak to many

44
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what is the significance of the rhyme scheme in Furthest Distances?

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unclear then develops into a solid AABB scheme

45
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what is the allusion made in the title in the title “on her blindness”?

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Milton’s poem ; on his blindness, where he considers the implications of health decline

46
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what is significant about the structure of on her blindness?

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2 line stanzas. except the final stanza to exaggerate the death,

47
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what does the lack of end-stopped sentences in on her blindness signify?

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flow of memories after the death in the final stanza

48
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what is the effect of the dark humour in on her blindness?

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knowledge that mother is getting worse so has to search for positivity but illness is also taking over

49
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what form does Effects take?

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one long stanza - reader is overwhelmed

50
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what is the effect of the use of punctuation in Effects?

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adds a story-like quality
extensive use of punctuation

51
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what is significant about the lack of consistent rhyme in Effects?

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reader disorientation
mimics disorientation of mother / grief

52
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what is significant about the final line of Effects?

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cyclical - both start and end with hands

53
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what is the significance of irregularity structure of a Minor Role?

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irregularity of life
stanza length first seems uniform, but mimics the change of life

54
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what is the effect of frequent caesura in a Minor Role?

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interruptions in life, nothing is as ‘free’ as we think

55
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what is the context of a Minor Role’s author?

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worked as a secretary in a psychiatric hospital, inspired by patients’ “strong specialness”

56
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how is the author of Please Hold’s work usually described?

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satirical

57
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what does the title infer of Please Hold?

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a range of info bc its synonymous with phone calls with customer service
imperative implies sense of action

58
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what is the structure of Please Hold?

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one long stanza - endlessness
performance poem - modernist lack of “” shows irrelevance to spoken language

59
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in Please Hold, what is shown by repetition?

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fruitlessness, maze of dead ends

60
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what is shown by the plosives in the final stanza in Please Hold?

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removal of “please” speeds up pace, breakdown of speech and thoughts
OR mimics static

61
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what is significant of the stanza for the Journal of a Disappointed Man?

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regular stanza and line lengths - monotony of the job
11 quartets - “blocks” of text

62
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what is the irony in the reference to a “mystic” in Journal of a Disappointed Man?

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until now, the speaker implied the men are dumb, but now he refers to them as “one with god”

63
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what is the inferences of the title “Look We Have Coming To Dover”?

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Punglish - English and Indian blend
grammatically incorrect - deconstructs notions of Britishness

64
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what is the effect of the alliteration with “Look…”

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dizzying - overwhelming experience for the migrants?

65
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what is the significant of rhyme scheme in Look..?

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1/2 rhyme, blend of two, almost fitting in but not quite

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what is the significance of the irregular lines in Look..?

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movement of the sea
cycles of migration

67
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what are the political references in Look..?

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Tony Blair - controversial figure who decided not to enforce restrictions of large-scale migrations
“swarm” - David Cameron - migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea as a “swarm”

68
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what is the effect of the *** in Deliverer?

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similar to receipt or announcement boards - dehumanising process
focus on distance

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what is the effect of the lack of figurative language in the Deliverer?

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raw truth and emotion, realistic, experience speaks for itself

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what is the effect of the enjambed “to woman/ to woman” in the deliverer?

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child is viewed as an unwanted commodity, increased sympathy

71
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“trudge home for their men again” - the deliverer
what is the connotations of this final line?

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unwillingness
trade and value in gender
cycle - reader should take action
doesn’t lay easy blame, but examines moral cultural pressures
simple sentence - shot life the girl will lead

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what is the effect of the highly irregular structure of History?

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unpredictable - anything can become history at any point
mimics confusion

73
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why might History use some structure within the largely unstructured poem?

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small sections of collected thoughts - gradual decay of understanding

74
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why might History use a semantic field of fish?

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diversity of human life tied together by a common factor
expendable - “many fish in the sea”

75
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how does the structure of “ode on a gp urn” mimic Keats’?

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5 10 line stanzas
“traditional” rigid structure links past and present

76
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how does “urn of GP urn” subvert Keats’ poem?

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Turnbull’s is much simpler

77
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what is the effect of enjambment in “Ode on a GP Urn”?

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inconsistent, and also end-stopped
unpredictable future

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