'The Gun' by Vicki Feaver

Question 1

this poem is a

Answer 1

audacious relish of the physical knowledge the thrill of connection between, sex death and life.

Question 2

opening stanza is dramatic shocking even a line has been crossed

Answer 2

a home associated with safety and family and whet enters the home is a potential threat ‘the gun’ a means of taking life

Question 3

the atmosphere of violence is sustained throughout the poem through the sound of then poem and the structure and lines

Answer 3

its as if the guns explosive potential is embedded in the sound the poem makes

Question 4

enjambment used to pull focus on

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‘the gun’ and ‘a rabbit shot clean through the head’ ‘your hands reek of gun oil and entrails’ this way the lines break the human and animal encounter

Question 5

the poem also breaks contemporary taboo around hunting and valuing the natural world as well as gender roles

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the women cooks what the man brings home after hunting

Question 6

pagan beliefs about the

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appearance of the king of death.