"The Flag" by John Agard
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- Created on: 01-04-13 13:46
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- The Flag
- Form and structure
- Has 5 stanzas, 3 lines in each
- Middle line is shorter than the other two.
- Mimics the shape of a medieval flag
- Three lines are like three stripes of many national flags
- Fist and third lines of the first three stanzas rhyme.
- suggests a bond between the two voices.
- final stanza ends in rhyming couplet.
- Shows how the 'arguement' of the poem has been developing towards a conclusion. different directions.
- Built around a conversation between two voices.
- One asks child like questions
- the other maybe represents Agard.
- Subject becomes more personal each time.
- nation
- men
- A coward
- You
- Has 5 stanzas, 3 lines in each
- Language and imagery.
- Built around clashing ideas and images.
- Soft sounds of flag
- "fluttering", "unfurling", "rising", "flying"
- Short, sharp, hard sounds.
- "Nation", "knees", "guts", "grow"
- "It's just a piece of cloth". It is also as if the poet is trying to deny the symbol of its power
- Soft sounds of flag
- Built around clashing ideas and images.
- Themes
- Nationalism is purely an abstract idea
- We are all human and yet certain individuals, powerful leaders, will create divisions simply by giving meaning to a limp and fluttering piece of cloth.
- Symbolism
- a symbol whose ideas are dangerous and an invention of mankind.
- Nationalism is purely an abstract idea
- Form and structure
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