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Description
Mind Map by Chloe Mukono, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Chloe Mukono
almost 8 years ago
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FLAG-John Agard
- Tone/Purpose
- Flag is growing in dominance
- Pessimistic
- Protest poem
- Soft sounding verbs for
questions about flag- harsh,
negative tone for explanation/
answer
- Simple flow- childlike
- Shows how goverment uses
flags as propaganda
- Harsh
- Firm
- Bitter
- Patriotism provides us with an excuse to
accept the barbarism our goverments
are carrying out
- Patriotism provides us with an excuse to
accept the barbarism our goverments
are carrying out
- Agard is trying to raise
awareness of how much a
pice of cloth has over our
consience
- Flag is growing in dominance
- Language
- Repitition
- ''Just''- drums it into readers mind
about how little the importance the
flag actually holds
- ''Just''- drums it into readers mind
about how little the importance the
flag actually holds
- Verbs indicate where they are
- ''Whats' that''
- Start of 4 stanzas
- Start of 4 stanzas
- "It's just a piece of cloth"
- Agard simplifies it's importance
- Agard simplifies it's importance
- "guts"
- ambiguous
- alliteration
- literal
- figuritive
- ambiguous
- "Possess"
- We want to own
flag but the flag
owns us
- ambiguous
- We want to own
flag but the flag
owns us
- Agard personifies flag
- "Relent"
- Flag is intimidating towards other
countries as it seeks the world for
more power and resources
- Flag is intimidating towards other
countries as it seeks the world for
more power and resources
- Repitition
- Form and Structure
- Strict structure
- Long line, short, long
- Like a flag
- Like a flag
- Long line, short, long
- Rise and fall in internation in
last stanza
- call and response questioning
- Slant rhyme
- 1st line in each stanza
begins with a question
- Engages readers mind, gradually increasing
impact to what comes in last stanza
- Engages readers mind, gradually increasing
impact to what comes in last stanza
- 'aba' structure
- Terecet structure~
looks like 3 stripes on a a flag
- Strict structure
- Mmm I know!
- Mood and
Method
- Belligerent (hostile &
aggressive)~childlike
tone found in
questions followed
by a candid reply/
answer
- Belligerent (hostile &
aggressive)~childlike
tone found in
questions followed
by a candid reply/
answer
- Message and
Minutiae
- A flag is a cloak of deciet for
immorality and brutality under
the guise of patriotism
- "That will outlive the blood
you bleed", "That brings a
nation to its knees", "Then
blind your conscience to
the end"
- ~ You are no longer
in charge of your
conscience; your
ordered to fulfil/
complete tasks
- ~ You are no longer
in charge of your
conscience; your
ordered to fulfil/
complete tasks
- "That will outlive the blood
you bleed", "That brings a
nation to its knees", "Then
blind your conscience to
the end"
- A flag is a cloak of deciet for
immorality and brutality under
the guise of patriotism
- Mind
(imagery)
- use of onomatopia creates vivid
imagery making flag appear as if it is
alive
- "Fluttering in a breeze",
"Unfurling from a pole",
"rising over a tent",
"flying across a field",
"possess such a cloth"
- "Fluttering in a breeze",
"Unfurling from a pole",
"rising over a tent",
"flying across a field",
"possess such a cloth"
- use of onomatopia creates vivid
imagery making flag appear as if it is
alive
- Mood and
Method
- Context and Themes
- John Agard
- born 1949
- Grew up in British Guyana~
conflicting lifesyle
- born 1949
- Progression of war
- Steriotypical
elemnts of war
- Allusion of power
in flags
- Presented as convo.
between child and adult
- Naive questioner
- John Agard
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