The Journal Of A Dissapojnted Man

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Personal detachment

• exclusion
• metaphor for his life, remorse, incompletion

Question 2

‘I discovered’

Answer 2

Optimism, boring life, watching an inexplicable thing

Question 3

‘Man’

Answer 3

Anonymous

Question 4

‘Massive affair’

Answer 4

Powerful character

Question 5

Writing style

Answer 5

Not good literacy style, ruminative and silent

Question 6

‘Ignoring me’

Answer 6

He is a non entity to them he is alone and they are togtethrr

Question 7

Emphasising no speech

Answer 7

‘Ruminative and silent’

Question 8

What type of man is he

Answer 8

Impotent man attracted to a sense of achievement

Question 9

‘Let go’ hold tight’

Answer 9

Not talking much, silent spectator, event mediated only his interpretation

Question 10

‘Monosyllables’

Answer 10

Deliberately obscure

- curious, lack of action

Question 11

What is the man trying to express

Answer 11

His intelligent because he feels intimidated and isolated

Question 12

Examined and

Answer 12

Unexamined life not worth living

- hyper fixation

Question 13

‘Indifferent’

Answer 13

How he feels about his life, nothing to say about him

Question 14

‘Crack of doom’

Answer 14

Infinitely unresolved, cliche, colloquial

- lower middle class

Question 15

Style

Answer 15

Free verse 
- no Rhythm 
No regular rhyme 
- end stopped verses 
- pause and static

Question 16

‘Massive man’

Answer 16

Repetition, intimidated, jealous

Question 17

‘Slow descent into the same depths’

Answer 17

No energy, tired hundreds of men with failed lives

- lack of movement

Question 18

‘Close attention’

Answer 18

Curious, lack of action

Question 19

‘The foreman’

Answer 19

Assigning roles is pointless over analysis of poetry

Question 20

‘Still in mid air’

Answer 20

Isolation doesn’t fit into intelligent stereotypes of the workers beneath him