The Lammas Hireling (PotD) Flashcards
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light heart and a heavy purse
The farmer is intially money driven and the tone at the beginning of the poem is cheery and lively e.g.’fair’
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‘cattle doted on him’
the hireling has a natural affinity for animals - foreshadowing his inhuman identity
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I grew fond of company//
That knew when to shut up
Juxtaposotion
- unreliablity of the farmers account of events
- shifting/ unrelable attitude
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Then one night//
//Distrubed from dreams…
Caesura
- shift in time signals change
- change from daytime to night suggests transgression will occur
- metaphorical and lietral darkness
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his pale form… in the light … dark lantern
Juxtaposition through colour imagery
- aids to the idea of an unreliable narrator
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By its yellow witness
Personification
- moon judging the speaker
- for commiting a crime against nature
- we see from the start of the hireling’s transformation the supersititious paranoia of the speaker begin to emerge
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I dont dream
But spend my nights casting ball from half-crowns
We now see a shift in the speaker
- once money obsessesed
- now uses the moneyhe earns to make bullets
- state of superstitious paranoia and worry
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It has been an hour since my last confession
Cycle of seeking constant forgiveness
- once a carefree happy narator, now in a paranoid cycle of seeking absolution
