Punishment

Punishment

Tone
1. Remorseful
2. Accusational
Themes
1. Nature
2. History
3. Lust
Overview
1. criticism of stone-age community's brutal intolerance
2. body found in North Germany
Phonetics
1. Sibilance - stones of silence
  1. Biblical reference
  2. Harsh nature
Rhyme
1. Lack of rhyme
  1. Poem's uncertainty and Heaney's guilt
Imagery
1. Boat/Sea Imagery
  1. Lost and neglected
    1. Frail rigging
    2. drowned
    3. Floating
2. Adultery
  1. her noose a ring
    1. Harsh and reflecting her crime
      1. - to store the memories of love
        Romanticised
3. Vulnerability/ Sexual Victim
  1. Gives poem a dark/morbid feel
  2. Blows her nipples to amber beads
    1. Precious and open
  3. Fully open and on display
    1. Her shaved head
Language
1. Descriptive language of appearance
  1. Oak bone
    1. Evokes pathos - been left for a long time
  2. Vivid image
2. Compound adjectives
  1. Flaxen-haired, undernourished, tar-black
    1. Un-romantic but finds an upbeat nature and romanticises her appearance - endstopping with beautiful
3. Self-revealing, guilt
  1. Possessive pronouns
    1. My poor scapegoat
  2. I am the artful voyeur I who
Structure
1. Stanza 6 - Love letter
  1. Little adulteress - adressing her Capitalisation
    1. End stop before
  2. Direct address - you
  3. Personal pronoun - my
2. Opening stanza - speaker imagining himself at the execution/ sympathising with the girl
3. Final 2 stanzas expose the contemporary events in Northern Ireland

Resource summary

	Created by Mollie Rich about 6 years ago