The Clown Punk

The Clown Punk

1. Key-

   • Language- Connotation, imagery, metaphor, similie
   • Structure and form- Stanzas, type, patterns, contrast, juxtaposition
   • Poetic Methods- Alliteration, caesura, assonance, rhythm, rhyme
   • Character and Voice- Who is speaking and to whom? Tone of voice
   • Links- Comparisons to other speakers, methods and themes

2. "Clown Punk" - Oxymoron used to show how people see him as a ridiculous figure

3. "like a basket of washing that got up and walked" - Simile implies that he is dressed eccentrically and to them looks unkempt and dishevelled

4. "Shonky side" - Alliteration and sibilance - emphasises menacing area

5. "Town Clown" - Assonance/rhyme emphasises how they see him as a joke and something amusing

6. "But don't laugh" - Imperatives have the tone of a lesson - he serves as a reminder and example of how not to behave/dress according to parents

7. "indelible ink" - Highlights permanency of the decisions made in youth

8. "deflated face" - Mirrors deflated ideals and ambitions or dreams he once had

9. "dyed brain" - Reflects the clouded judgement of the 'punk' and ridicules his decisions - metaphor

10. "picture windscreen wipers, and let it rain" - As the rain washes the suds away, so too has the significance and worth of the punk diminished when people judge him

11. Simon Armitage-

    • +Born in Huddersfield
    • +Worked as probation officer and supermarket assistant
    • +Won awards for poetry and song lyrics, lead vocalist in Scaremongers
    • +Poet in residence at the Millenium Dome

12. Structure-

    • +Uses imagery and vocabulary to create vivid picture
    • +Simile at the beginning: "like a basket of washing that got up and walked" to describe untidy clothes, comic effect
    • +Uses language such as 'shonky' meaning dirty and derelict and 'punk', is a Shakespearian term which is used in prisons to describe you inmates
    • +Metaphor 'every pixel'
    • + Personification 'sad tattoos'
    • +Colloquial 'daft much'
    • +Injury 'shot, deflated, shrunken'
    • +Untraditional sonnet
    • +Regular rhyme at the end of the poem
    • +Half rhyme in the middle
    • +Rhyme at the end of the poem - form
    • +Enjambment (continuation of a sentence over different lines)
    • +Ordered but out of balance

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