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Flashcards by Reuben Veysey-Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Reuben Veysey-Smith
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Structure | The fact the stanzas get the smaller each time could connote towards the environment being suppressed or the claustrophobia of urban life |
| Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: | Pathetic fallacy for perfection, ironic as they are separate things The fact everything is sane is insane |
| the houses in pedantic rows, the planted sanitary trees, assert levelness of surface like a rebuke to the dent in our car door. | Visual imagery for boring mathematical precision Nature is suppressed and should not be sane Third line is a metaphor as the lack of individuality means it could be owned by somebody else |
| No shouting here, or shatter of glass; nothing more abrupt than the rational whine of a power mower cutting a straight swath in the discouraged grass. | Could be connoting towards childish actions, which urban life prohibits Antithesis because sound can not be rational, desire to control Disencouraged is not a word showing rebellion |
| But though the driveways neatly sidestep hysteria by being even, the roofs all display the same slant of avoidance to the hot sky, certain things | Repetition shows mathematical precision Symbol for the neglect of nature |
| the smell of spilled oil a faint sickness lingering in the garages, a splash of paint on brick surprising as a bruise, a plastic hose poised in a vicious coil; even the too-fixed stare of the wide windows | Hose is a metaphor for the snake, a symbol for evil Personification for windows showing a slightly insane nature, antithesis to the first stanza |
| give momentary access to the landscape behind or under the future cracks in the plaster | This connotes towards urban regeneration |
| when the houses, capsized, will slide obliquely into the clay seas, gradual as glaciers that right now nobody notices. | This could be a symbol for nature striking back, hence the sea metaphor. Also the ship sinking in comparison with a gradual process is antithesis and could be rebellion. Or it could be a metaphor for urban regeneration |
| That is where the City Planners with the insane faces of political conspirators are scattered over unsurveyed territories, concealed from each other, each in his own private blizzard | Symbol for trying to bend nature to our advantage unserveyed is not a word and rebellion line 4 could be a symbol for business competition and commercialization Private blizzard is pathetic fallacy for insanity and antithesis |
| guessing directions, they sketch transitory lines rigid as wooden borders on a wall in the white vanishing air tracing the panic of suburb order in a bland madness of snows. | Could be a symbol fr business risk and the phrase 'time is money' The air lexis is a metaphor for pollution Juxtaposition of panic and order, pathos for the suburbs Bland madness is oxymoron and snow is pathetic fallacy for blandness |
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