POTD Flashcards
Key quotes from ‘EAT ME’
‘didn’t even taste it’ - removed agency
‘Like forbidden fruit’ - biblical, sexist
‘Craving a wave’ - assonance - frustration
‘Rolled and be Drowned in my Flesh’ - enjambment
‘Pink icing ‘ - ref to Alice in wonderland?
Structure & form points for Eat Me
Isometric (multiple meanings)
10x3 line stanzas
Chainsaw Vs Pampas grass key quotes
Stealing the show - feathers + plumes
Sibilance - sounds menacing go or soft?
Plosive - scoffing?
‘Spat’ from pipes - ‘s’ is violent - machine vs nature
Nature’s power can rival man’s Xx
Chainsaw - key structure points
Caesura 1st stanza - revving
s.f of war
Cyclical - chainsaw returns to its place
Metre varied (iambic, and other)
Material key quotes
Title - lack of article = displacement.
Idiosyncrasies like the man with the foot = stuck in the past
Used to idolise mother ‘hanky queen’ now an ‘embarrassment in lace’
‘SMUDGE THE ROUGUE’ assonance vs rhyme - conflict
‘Farm up there’ hyperbole
Material - structural points
- old, romantic language vs new in stanza 2
9x stanzas, 2x couplets
Dialogue from mother - intimacy - continue parental role ?
The deliverer key quotes
‘The strangeness of her empty arms’ - loss of function (her mother vs my)
Penis - reality, lack of euphemistic language
‘one of them’ no identity
‘Something to chew’ - harsh- dehumanising
The deliverer - structural points
Divided by location - internal cyclical structure - woman lying down for their men again
Please hold key quotes
Rhyme ‘old’ cold hold - Direct, simple limited - gradual acceptance
‘Translator’ detachment
Eine fucking kleine Nachtsmusik - breaks up nice music with technology - also interposing English
‘No option in the guise of countless alternatives’ irony ‘my wife says THIS is the future’
Please hold - structural points
1 stanza continuous building control internal cyclical structure. Repetition. Last stanza - breaking free of attempt to stop technology ?
Ode on a Grayson Urn
Beauty in the gift of the beholder - change in idiom? - makes the ‘eye’ bit a privilege
Regular rhyme - jovial, light
Pensioners + parents vs youth
Change in voice - formal vs informal - frowned upon
Look we have coming to Dover quotes
Lashing diesel breeze - memory of slavery?
Contrasts with epigraph - gobfuls and phloem - hostile environment
Lording the ministered wave - tourists trying to send them away
Our huddled camouflage Ironic, it is wildlife that usually has natural camouflage
‘My love and I ‘ - shift to proper speech
From the journal of a disappointed man quotes
Monosyllables - masculine images - physical size = power
Paraphernalia- more advanced language
Distanced observation ‘I watched them’ at least an hour - time on his hands
Like a mystic - only simile - narrator relating ??? He is gazing at the men
Genetics key language
Ist sentence reflected - even. Genetics ‘= detached, scientific
The skin’s demands - Christian teaching - must have children
Shape a chapel - childhood
Turns to present tense
Quarry for an image by a river (Quarrying is the process of removing rock, sand, gravel or other minerals from the ground)
Not understanding of relationship
Genetics - structure
Villanelle - strict - fixed form. Like genetics. Fixed relationships - the child is produce of relationship
Ballad like form (villanelle = dance form)
Not typical rhyme scheme - discordance of relationship
