The Collar Flashcards
1
Q
Themes
A
Religion
Freedom
2
Q
Herbert
A
Priest of Church of England
Struggled with religious beliefs
Metaphysical poet
Intricate rhyme schemes
3
Q
Techniques
A
‘The collar’ connotations, imagery- owner, controlled
Irregular structure- blurted unstructured thoughts
Rhetorics, hypophora- confused, questioning himself and god
‘Child!’ Metaphor- father and child, collar is tight
Flirts with iambic tetrameter, occasional rhyme- occasional belief
