A Constable Calls
- Created by: Millief1
- Created on: 07-05-16 11:56
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- A Constable Calls
- Meaning
- Power of an oppressive government
- British control over Ireland
- Political poem
- Structure
- "Imagining the black hole in the barracks."
- End stopped - fear
- Cyclical structure
- Starts and Ends with constable on bike
- Inevitable that he will return
- Heaney watches him come and go
- Lack of trust between countries
- Starts and Ends with constable on bike
- "Imagining the black hole in the barracks."
- Language
- Violence references
- gun
- "cocked back"
- Bomb
- "ticked, ticked, ticked"
- Repetition shows inevitability that history will repeat itself
- "ticked, ticked, ticked"
- gun
- Police man's holster
- Attention to detail eg."polished" shows fear
- "unstrapped" - authority
- "His cap was upside down / On the floor"
- Violence references
- Meaning
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