The Cliche Kid

Question 1

What perspective is the poem from and who is the speaker?

Answer 1

The speaker is an emotionally unstable individual, struggling to come to terms with their past, childhood, loneliness and mental state speaking to a therapist. Reader is therapist

Question 2

What themes are common in the poem?

Answer 2

Loneliness, childhood, cliche, seasons, memory, trauma, desperation

Question 3

Describe what happens in the poem.

Answer 3

First stanza- Begging for help through implied imperitive, memory of father from youth
Second stanza- memory of mother with her friends, mention of alcohol/medication
Third stanza- Childhood loneliness, having no friends at school
Fourth stanza- Seasons change, childhood represented through seasons
Fifth stanzas- FIrst love, stages of life represented in stanzas
Sixth stanza- Confusing senses through malapropism, deteriorating mental state

Question 4

What is the structure of the poem?

Answer 4

Dramatic monologue, tercet as structure imitates strain of thought which is confused and disorderly, resembled b the aposiopesis

Question 5

What techniques are used in the poem?

Answer 5

Aposiopesis (elipses)
Internal rhyme
Malapropism
Imperitive sentences
Antistrophe repition/tripling
Lexical set of stative verbs creates a semantic field of desire