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Sounds of the Day and Assisi Quotes
Karten in diesem Stapel (15)
- 1Sounds of the DayNorman MacCaig
- 2'when the air creaked, it was a lapwing seeing us off the premises of its private marsh'personification is light-hearted and playful; such delicate sounds can be heard suggesting a still environment which allows the speaker to hear and appreciate the natural world
- 3'when the black drums rolled, it was water falling sixty feet into itself''black' - suggests the poem has more serious undertones; the image gives the drums a deeper meaning and become an ominous, brooding sound effect marking a turning point in the poem
- 4'when the door scraped shut, it was the end of all the sounds there are'metaphor comparing to the end of a relationship; mood of despair as reader suggests that there will be no re-opening of this door - no hope of reunion
- 5'You left me beside the quietest fire in the world'feelings of contentment replaced by ones of abject loneliness and isolation - highlights the suddenness of the new silence
- 6'when you plunge your hand in freezing water, you feel a bangle of ice round your wrist before the whole hand goes numb'describes the initial jarring pain of this experience and the subsequent feeling of numbness - captures the intensity of the raw and painful sense of loss experienced in the initial aftermath of a breakup.
- 7AssisiNorman MacCaig
- 8'The dwarf with his hands on backwards sat, slumped like a half-filled sack'suggests disability or deformation; simile comparing his body to a sack suggesting that he is like a lifeless object
- 9'outside the three tiers of churches built in honour of St Francis'comparison/contrast of the grandness of the church to the beggar who has nothing
- 10'that would reveal to the illiterate the goodness of God and the suffering of His Son'the beggar is a son of God as well, and so he should be cared for also as he is suffering
- 11'I understood the explanation and the cleverness'saying that the dwarf understand the messages from the frescoes even though he is illiterate
- 12'A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly, fluttered after him as he scattered the grain of the Word'onomatopoeia; alliteration; word choice relating to chicken - comparison of the tourists to chickens; blind absorption of the information from the priest; reference to the parable of the sower
- 13'the ruined temple outside'reference to the dwarf - actually a poor man considered small by society but temple suggests he had former potential
- 14'whose eyes wept pus, whose back was higher than his head''contrasts to the frescoes in the church; they are works of art unlike him'
- 15'or a bird's when it spoke to St Francis'poem ends on St Francis reminding the reader what it really means to be a child of God
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