Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Afternoon with Irish cows
- Line 4:
“their big
heads down
in the soft
grass” =
(tactile
imagery)
- Line 6 and
7: “look out
to see the
field
suddenly
empty as if
they had
taken wing,
flown off to
another
country” =
(simile)
- Line 11: “on
the
black-and-white
maps
on
their
sides”
=
(metaphor/
compares
to
the
spots
of
the
cow)
- Line 13: “how
mysterious,
how patient
and
dumbfounded”
=
(extreme
adjectives
for
something
we
consider
normal,
descriptive)
- Line 16:
“would let
out a sound
so
phenomenal”
=
(extreme
adjectives)
- Line 20 and
21: “to see
which one
of them
was being
torched or
pierced
through the
side with
long spears)
- Line 22: “it
sounded
like pain” =
(oral
imagery)
- Line 25 and
26:
“labouring
upward as
she gave
voice to the
rising,
full-bodied
cry” =
(sound/oral
imagery)
- Line 30: “She
was”
“announcing”
“herself”
=
(happy,
makes
you
smile)
- Line 32:
“ancient
apologia” =
(apology)
- Line 33 and
34: “to all
the green
fields and
grey clouds,
to the
limestone
hills and
the inlet of
the blue
bay” =
(visual
imagery)
- Left with the
idea that he
hears her
cries, she
notices him
and scares
him away. It
shows the
impact of
humans on
animals/nature,
it’s
negative
- He is telling us
and anecdote
- Each stanza
tells us a
different
anecdote