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Mind Map by niamhmoynagh, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by niamhmoynagh
about 11 years ago
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The Forge
- Creative Process
- Analogy for writing
poems - different aspects of forge work as metaphors
- blacksmith- scraps of metal into
beautiful shapes, poetry impose order
to ideas and words
- blacksmith- scraps of metal into
beautiful shapes, poetry impose order
to ideas and words
- Celebration of the blacksmiths work.
Drawn to the physicality of the work
- Interior of
forge depicted
as a place of
wonder and
marvel - anvil as a writers desk - 'unicorn' 'magical'
- childs perspective - fascinated, in awe,
childlike sense of wonder, childhood
mentality
- Changing world - blacksmith watches the cars
passing - horseshoes he makes are hardly needed in
modern world of mass produced cars
- Pertrarkan sonet
- First 8 lines - craft. End 6 lines - blacksmith at work
- Forge as a poets mind/ imagination
- 'unpredictable fantail of sparks'
- refers to the sound of the blacksmiths
work as creating 'music'
- full of sounds- 'hiss' of the hot horseshoe, 'grunts' of
blacksmith, 'short pitched ring' of anvil
- defiance - determination to preserve his craft in changing world
- manliness - 'expends
himself in shape and
music' (at the anvil-
writers desk)
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