Wants Flashcards
The sky grows dark with invitation cards
Via the employment of a metaphor , the speaker is highlighting his deep inner sense of melanchony when it comes to social intetaction, almost as if he feels an intense weight upon his shoulders due to the pressures of comforting to societal expectations
We follow the printed directions of sex
The first and only instance of a plural pronoun here suggestive of how the speaker , despite viewing sex as lacking any real value due to being baseless and almost artifical, still conforms and abides by the societal norm of sex.
The family is photographed under the flag staff
Speaker intentionally makes a comment on societys post war patriotism to almost mock their blinded pride in their nation-perhaps due to the severity of cold war tension during this time frame.
‘However’
Anaphoric repition highlighting how societal expectations are continual and persistent in the pressures they avoke
Beyond all this, the wish to be alone
The mirroring of the last and final line of the first line suggestive of how ultimately, the speaker deeply desires to escape societal pressures and instead finds comfort in solitude which is emphasised by the caesura.
Beneath it all, the desire for oblivion runs
The earlier anaphoric repition of beyond all this shifts here, perhaps making a comment on how in the end , societal pressures eventually crush and diminish ones sense of self despite speakers earlier sense of optimism to escape societal expectations. Yet , the speaker still futiley wishes to divert himself away from social norms with oblivion being symbolic of death
The artful tensions of the calendar
Oxymoron highlighting how speaker is fixated upon the stressful passing of time , suggestive of how he is conflicted between being optimistic of the future to escape societal expectations, but also how he fears the passing of time and the missed opportunities that come with it as a result of societal pressures
The artful tensions of the calendar
Oxymoron highlighting how speaker is fixated upon the stressful passing of time , suggestive of how he is conflicted between being optimistic of the future to escape societal expectations, but also how he fears the passing of time and the missed opportunities that come with it as a result of societal pressures
The costly aversion of the eyes away from death
Speaker depicts how avoiding death is perhaps what pressures him most of all, he critiques society and himself by making a comment on how life is wasted through being consumed by societal expectations
Quiantaints
Reflective of the restriction of societal expectations
Context
-cold war
- marriage is a bloody hell
-sad eyed realsim
-movement
-fixates on death cough cough sucide cough cough
